Pidge frowned, mulling over what he's saying. He's...kind of talking like they're dead? Did she really never give him the full story?
"No!" She exclaims and then backs off again. "I mean, it's not like that. My brother and my dad were out on an exploratory mission to Kerberos along with Shiro, the top pilot in the Galaxy Garrison. They were looking for signs of alien life but they just happened to be in the path of the Galra Empire and were taken captive."
She sucks in a shaky breath. "Last I knew, they were sent to a work camp. I downloaded an invoice of prisoners from a Galra ship and it listed them as alive. The data was a few months old at that point but the Galra don't waste resources..."
Actually, now that she puts it like that, it isn't really all that much different from what Dipper went through, and she suspects she'd feel similarly if she found and lost them again.
"Look...I'd argue with you, but part of being a Voltron Paladin is forming a bond with your teammates and your robot cat so it literally does run on friendship."
She says it with a laugh because she's never thought of it like that, but it makes total sense. She's not willing to put the word 'silly' to it because she's seen what Voltron can do. And what her team can do.
"But you know...that bond kept me alive when I was stranded in the castle with the Galra, and it kept me from running off and exploding in space when I was so gung-ho to look for my family before then." She turns her hand over, palm up for him. She's not really used to this kind of touch but she can channel Shiro and Hunk for him if it works.
"I know our worlds are different, but we aren't in either of them right now and...I dunno, maybe there's a half-way we can meet. I mean, when the sky tears for me it's because a magic space princess has opened an escape wormhole, but we've still been through a lot of the same things. At the very least we can promise not to go it alone?"
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"No!" She exclaims and then backs off again. "I mean, it's not like that. My brother and my dad were out on an exploratory mission to Kerberos along with Shiro, the top pilot in the Galaxy Garrison. They were looking for signs of alien life but they just happened to be in the path of the Galra Empire and were taken captive."
She sucks in a shaky breath. "Last I knew, they were sent to a work camp. I downloaded an invoice of prisoners from a Galra ship and it listed them as alive. The data was a few months old at that point but the Galra don't waste resources..."
Actually, now that she puts it like that, it isn't really all that much different from what Dipper went through, and she suspects she'd feel similarly if she found and lost them again.
"Look...I'd argue with you, but part of being a Voltron Paladin is forming a bond with your teammates and your robot cat so it literally does run on friendship."
She says it with a laugh because she's never thought of it like that, but it makes total sense. She's not willing to put the word 'silly' to it because she's seen what Voltron can do. And what her team can do.
"But you know...that bond kept me alive when I was stranded in the castle with the Galra, and it kept me from running off and exploding in space when I was so gung-ho to look for my family before then." She turns her hand over, palm up for him. She's not really used to this kind of touch but she can channel Shiro and Hunk for him if it works.
"I know our worlds are different, but we aren't in either of them right now and...I dunno, maybe there's a half-way we can meet. I mean, when the sky tears for me it's because a magic space princess has opened an escape wormhole, but we've still been through a lot of the same things. At the very least we can promise not to go it alone?"