Everyday on the Castle of Lions

It's a Big Castle

"This tech is just so amazing!" Pidge exclaimed.

"Yeah, you've said that at least a hundred times already." Keith scoffed from across the room. They had been on the Castle for nearly a week now, and being with people so much was wearing on Keith's patience.

"I know, but I feel like I am constantly learning something knew about it! It is so much more complex and incredible than anything on Earth!" Keith's words didn't seem to dampen the girl's excitement at all.

Keith rolled his eyes even though no one was looking at him to see it.

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On a separate wing of the Castle, Lance was at a loss. He had left the others in search of the spa room Allura had mentioned the day before; figuring that it shouldn't be too hard to find on his own.

That assumption proved to be wrong. The Castle was much bigger than Lance thought, and with no signs to help with direction.

You can't build something this big and not provide anything to navigate it with! They're practically forcing people to get lost! Lance thought to himself, frustrated. He had been wandering on his own for at least an hour, and no spa was in sight. Lance sighed and decided to open the door to a room he was walking by. At this point, he would welcome almost anything to cure his boredom.

The room he entered appeared to be some sort of... classroom? There was the main section, which consisted of a few small tables that had chairs facing towards the far end of the room. On one side of the room, at the far end, there was a door to another, smaller room. Lance opened the door and entered it. His heart skipped a beat when he saw a figure sitting a desk inside of it, but it quickly settled once he realized it wasn't moving. In fact, it didn't appear to be even alive.

Lance chuckled to himself. "Calm down Lance, it's just a robot." He sat down in the empty chair in front of him so that he was now facing the robot; the desk in between them. "So uh, have you been here this whole time? Since the whole Zarkon-killing-Alfor-Galra-battle thing, or?" Lance asked casually. The robot remained silent. "Oh! Don't want to talk about it? I'm sorry, just thought I'd start up some sort of conversation." Lance put on his charismatic smile in an attempt to appease the lifeless metal. However, the robot still did nothing.

"Hmm." Lance stood up from the seat and walked around the desk to the robot. "Maybe it's not on." He looked around the robot for some sort of switch or button and eventually placed a hand on its shoulder to try to push it away from the back of the chair (so that he could look on its back). Once Lance touched the robot, however, it's eyes lit up and it stood up. Startled, Lance took a step back. "Hah! That's more like it!" The robot turned around to face Lance and appeared to look the human up and down for a second.

"So uh, do you have a na-" Lance began before getting cut off. The robot blurted something in an unknown language.

"What?!?" Lance took a step back, startled yet again. The robot stated something else in the foreign language. "I- I don't understand. Do you speak English?" Lance inquired. The robot repeated its statement and produced a long metal stick from its right thigh. The robot pointed this at Lance and repeated its words.

"Uhmmm.... I think I'm gonna go now.... Nice meeting ya!" Lance waved nervously and started walking past the robot towards the exit. The robot didn't stop Lance, but turned and watched him as he walked. Once Lance was in the doorway and about to close the door, however, the robot moved forward and gripped the door. Lance smiled anxiously.