[Allura is exhausted too. From both her own bout with this illness, but from the similar weight of responsibility. She too, feels the weight of Keith and Shiro having taken the worst of the disease to a frightening level, and is equally frustrated with her inability to do anything about it. Her own abilities here are dampened, and even then, with her level of inexperience, could she even...
She shuts her eyes as the weight of him against her acts as a comfort. In a way that curling up alone in bed could hardly achieve. When you wake up 10,000 years into a future that still feels so foreign and impossible, the loneliness remains, especially when you find yourself alone with your own thoughts, your memories of happier times. But there are no holo-pictures in this room of her mother and father to even look to.
Though here, she has her friends. She has Lance.
Her breathing is slowing a bit, but only from feeling comfortable through the heaviness of her exhaustion, and his touch warms her to her very core. There's a sigh, a small breath of a laugh.]
I say so, because it is the truth. [It's said almost sleepily. But she's smiling.] And I mean it when I say that I cannot imagine Voltron without you, Lance.
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She shuts her eyes as the weight of him against her acts as a comfort. In a way that curling up alone in bed could hardly achieve. When you wake up 10,000 years into a future that still feels so foreign and impossible, the loneliness remains, especially when you find yourself alone with your own thoughts, your memories of happier times. But there are no holo-pictures in this room of her mother and father to even look to.
Though here, she has her friends. She has Lance.
Her breathing is slowing a bit, but only from feeling comfortable through the heaviness of her exhaustion, and his touch warms her to her very core. There's a sigh, a small breath of a laugh.]
I say so, because it is the truth. [It's said almost sleepily. But she's smiling.] And I mean it when I say that I cannot imagine Voltron without you, Lance.
[Her hand squeezes his.]
Thank you...for being here.