I titled my head curiously. I had been transferred to another location, and when I had walked in, I was a little more than confused. The group, all dressed in black and blue, had turned from their meeting to look at me. I smiled awkwardly and waved, cringing into myself.
"(Y/n), yes?" I slowly nodded, one of the group tilting their head as another had checked I was in fact who had been sent. "Do you have a blade?" I slowly nodded again, my hood and mask covering the majority of my face. "Then you'll be sent through the trials." He turned to another person. "Keith, show them where to go." The being beside him nodded before exiting the room, with me hesitantly following behind. We walked in silence for a bit, until I spoke.
"Your name's human..." I randomly saiid, causing Keith to stop in the middle of the hallway.
"Human..? You know about Earth?" I nodded, pulling my hood down and my mask off.
"I'm human...surprise..." I cringed again, hating myself for having abandoned the Garrison post I had been at near home, and coming all the way out here.
"(Y/n) Shirogane...?" I tilted my head curiously, taking a worried step back. He quickly shook his head, removing his own mask and hood. "Keith, Kogane, I was in your class at the Galaxy Garrison, never got along with James-"
"-Griffin. You were a fighter pilot!" I smiled, finally, someone I knew. It was so nice to have a piece of home near me now.
"Y-yeah, and that Shiro used to kind of take care of me-"
"Oh my god, you're that Keith." He nodded, pursing his lips with a chuckle.
"Yeah..."
"God, I haven't heard his name in ages...Is he okay?" Keith nodded.
"Yeah, after he went missing, we found him, and now he is a Paladin of Voltron-"
"My brother went missing??" We continued to walk, Keith slowly nodding.
"How long have you been in Space??" I shrugged, holding my blade behind my back as I fiddled with it.
"I don't know, how old are you?"
"Like eighteen, almost nineteen-"
"Like four years then." Keith stared at me as we neared the training room.
"Four years...?" I nodded, smiling softly.
"Yeah...for a while I was with this group of rebels, and this guy, Matt, but then we found the Blade, and I joined up..."
"You know Matt? Matt Holt?" I nodded again, quirking my head to the left.
"You know an awful lot of humans in deep space, Keith." I giggled, as his face flushed a little. "But yeah, we dated for a while, then I found the Blade, and he found his little sister while we were both with the rebels...so we agreed it'd be best if we split-"
"So you guys split sort of recently?" I shrugged, not really knowing how long had been and gone.
"I mean, a lot has happened since then, but I guess so."
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"Keithy, can you please, please just...not shout...?" I asked, stumbling into the main cockpit of the black lion, offering cosmic wolf a wave as I did. "Please?" He glanced over his shoulder at me, sending me an apologetic smile.
"Yeah, sorry-" I saw him flinch, which made me tilt my head, looking over to the little cosmic wolf, who just made a noise. I slowly nodded. "Um, you might want to see this...before you go back to sleep..." Keith nodded over to the front of his lion, so I wandered over, leaning on his main console before freezing.
