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It was strange. For Lance to see Blue again. It had felt like so long since Blue dropped him off in Cuban waters and he had found a human family to life with that didn’t ask questions, choosing to believe what he told them; that he didn’t remember anything and he just remembered waking up sopping wet on the shore with no prior memory. Their family was big enough that almost no one on the outside notices a new child that had become a part of the McLain family and he easily hid in with humans using the shapeshifting ability few Altenas had to the extent he has.
He didn’t know how long he had been away from Altea, Blue had him in a pod for awhile and wasn’t sure how long he was in there. He hoped that his parents, sister, and Coran were ok, Altenas can live very long lives. He often wondered if Zarkon had been stopped or if his family could find him out here. He wasn’t even sure how Blue had found this place, as it’s so far away from Altea.
Soon after finding out that there was a sort of school for space explorers, he decided to go. Mama and Papa let him. They said if that’s what he wanted to do, then they would support him all the way there. It had taken a bit to get to, but he had finally been accepted into the Garrison and started his journey to get back into space, his home.
He met some really cool people and people who thought he was completely weird. He made rough friends with Pidge and Hunk, who he was paired with for piloting class. Plenty of people though that he was a bad pilot and only got on because his ‘rival’ left for an unknown reason. Some as that was true. He was kind of a bad pilot, but that was only because it was hard to unlearn all other the Altena tech and schooling, he had kept, and learn all of the new human tech and, rather underdeveloped, ways of piloting in space.
It was also sort of true that he got into the fighter piloting because of Keith leaving, but hey, it got him here, and nothing could beat that in luck. At the moment at least.
Speaking of ‘here’, he was currently in a cave filled with carvings of the Blue Lion. He wasn’t sure how they got here, as he zoned out for the walk to said cave. He certainly wasn’t the one to put the carvings there. Maybe Blue put them there. He just didn’t know. He had been dropped off all the way in Cuba, so maybe Blue had gone to the castle after all and brough someone back with her. She probable wouldn’t tell him, she knows him well enough that to tell him something that would worry him like that.
The rest of the group that were in the cave with him consisted of his friends Pidge and Hunk, as well as Shiro, who they had ‘rescued’ from the Garrison doctors after he crashed in a Gulran ship from space, and Keith, who was the one who originally found the cave and had brought them here after they had uncovered his weird conspiracy board he had in the shack, in the middle of a desert in Nebraska.
They all looked around the cave in fascination, clearly wondering what the depictions meant. He brushed some dirt off the wall and gently touched the carving of the Blue Lion, following the lines etched in the stone and not listening to Keith as he spoke. Blue had always been connected to him, even though she had other paladins, he would hang out with her in the hangers when he could, he could tell that she favored him, though he could never figure out why.
He wasn’t surprised when all over the cave, the carvings lit up blue, the quintessence that had been laying dormant now running freely in the carved veins of rock. A glowing circle formed around them and started to crack, making them all fall down a tunnel and into a shallow pool of water at the end. The last one to fall was Hunk, who got everyone even more soaked with a big splash of water.
He looked around the new cave, sensing the blue lion, knowing she was close and in this cave.
He herd a gasp to his side and looked over to see Keith staring at a giant blue shied encircling the lion who stood proud, watching them.
“Is this it? Is this the Voltron?” Pidge asked.
“It must be.” Shiro answered quietly, his voice full of astonishment, wonder and curiosity.
Keith looked up at the forcefield and the lion inside in wonder. “This is what’s been causing all this crazy energy out here. Looks like there’s a force field around it.” He approached it cautiously.
Lance could feel Blues eyes on him. “Does anyone else get the feeling they’re being watched.” He asked, with no real question behind his words. Shiro shook his head lightly, “hmm… no” Lance moved his head around playfully, watching Blues eyes follow him around. “Yeah. The eyes are following me.” He stated as they stopped away from the hung barrier looming above them.
Man, he really missed seeing Altena tech and the feeling of quintessence around him.
Keith went up to the shield and touched it briefly. “I wonder how we get through this.” he said, voice lightly echoing against cave walls.
Lance walked up to the shield beside him. “Maybe you just have to knock.” He suggested, knocking gently on the shield twice, knowing that Blue would let him in.
She did.
She also sent a short vision, showing them the full picture of Voltron. Seeing five, giant, metal lions come together to form on huge humanoid mech.
Several ‘woah’ s echoed though the room as everyone starred up at the lion in awe. “Uh, did everyone just see that?” “Voltron is a robot! Voltron is a huge, huge, awesome robot!” Hunk shouted in excitement. ‘Hah, just wait until you see the castle.’ Lance thought.
“And this thing is only one part of it! I wonder where the rest of them are.” Pidge wonders out loud.
Shiro’s voice was quiet “This is what they’re after.”
“Incredible.” Keiths voice filled with amazement.
The shield dispersed and her huge head lowered itself and she opened her maw in front of him, allowing him inside.
He grinned and heisted briefly, before running up the stairs and finding his way over to where the console was and sitting comfortably in the chair like he had so many times before.
Just as everyone else caught up, the chair slid forward, surprising him. Maybe she really did want him to pilot her.
‘Welcome back prince.’ Her voice warm in his head. He smiled as the console lit up, screens popping up all around them, she had never really let him take control, which fair, he was a little kid and the Altena prince and hire to the throne, so he want supposed to be in the hangers at all but know one would know that. He grinned almost manically.
“Heheh! All right! Very nice!” He was rather over exited to actually pilot her for the first time and he felt rather comfortable as the seat as it jolted forwards closer to the main console. No, he didn’t yelp in surprise. That was metal squeaking, not him. Nope.
Hunk grabbed the edge of the seat, “Ok guys, I-I feel the need to point out, just so that we’re all, y’know, aware: We are in some kind of alien cat head right now.”
Lance wanted to experiment with some of the buttons. He pressed one on his left. Blue stood up fully and roared, scaring Hunk and Pidge behind him.
“Ok. Got it. Now let’s try this.” He took the joy sticks and smashed through the rocks, effectively braking out and back into the sunlight.
“YOU ARE. THE WORST. PILOT. EVER.” Keith yelled as Blue took dips and twists mid flight. She landed on the ground and started running at full speed. “Isn’t this awesome!” Lance yelled over his shoulder.
“Make it stop! Make it stop!” Hunk was starting to look a bit queasy with all the fast movement.
“I’m not stopping anything. It’s like it’s on autopilot!” Lance responded, though he knows Blue wound never purposely harm any of them.
Blue launched herself into the air, speeding towards the edge of the atmosphere.
“Where are you going?!” Keith practically yelled in his ear.
Lance shouted back at him. “I just said it’s on autopilot! It says there’s an alien ship approaching Earth. I think we’re supposed to stop it.”
He was a little worried about what Blue told him. She didn’t specify what kind of species where on the ship but based on what he knew and the tone Blue used, he suspected it was Gulra, killing his last hope that his family was alive. He would deal with the grief later. Right now, he needed to stop them form destroying the planet he had become fond of.
Pidge interrupted his thoughts. “What did it say, exactly?!”
He now had to attempt to explain how Blue and he communicated, “Well, it’s not like it’s saying words, more like feeding ideas into my brain. Kind of.” That’s the best they were getting.
“Well, this thing is the weapon they’re coming for, why don’t we just, like—I don’t know, give it to them? Maybe they’ll leave us alone. Sorry lion, nothing personal.” Lance could tell Hunk was nervous as he spoke out his idea. Which fair, they were in an alien spaceship and were about to fight other aliens in the middle of space.
He really didn’t want to speak up and let them know what was going on. It was too much for him at the moment. Too many emotions and not enough time to sort everything out.
Thankfully, Shiro knew enough about them, having been their prisoner for an entire year. (Seriously, Lance was surprised he was still alive when he figured out where he had been after he disappeared from the Kerberos mission.)
“You don’t understand. These monsters spread like a plague throughout the galaxy, destroying everything in their path. There is no bargaining with them. They won’t stop until everything is dead.”
Everyone turned their heads to glare at Hunk, now knowing more of the severity of their situation and what Hunks suggestion could mean for them if they had followed through with it.
Hunk shrunk into himself a bit. “…Oh, never mind then.”
A sudden shadow covered the view-port, covering everything in a dark, luminescent purple glow all around them.
They had found the Gulra ship.
The ship was huge. A strange shape. Unusual colours and glow. Many, many portholes, giving a glance as to how large the ships were.
“Uh…Holy crow! Is that really an alien ship?!” Hunk stared at the massive ship towering over the now small looking lion, who was quite small now in comparison.
“They found me…” Shiro was stunned. They all looked surprised. Lance didn’t think they had that kind of tracking power. Then again, he wants quite sure how long exactly he had been gone for. He would have to check Blues data base when he was alone if he got the chance.
They opened fire.
Shooting glowing purple lazer beams out of some sort of canon on the top of the ship.
“We’ve got to get out of here!”
“Hang on!” Lance shouted back at Pidge.
He took the controls in his hands yet again and pushed them forward yet again, guiding Blue to turn and dodge the lasers that were shooting at them.
He thought for a second, “Ah! All right! OK, I think I know what to do!”
“Be careful, man! This isn’t a simulator!”
‘Of course, I know that Pidge.’
Aloud he just said, “Well, that’s good. I always wreck the simulator.”
He presses a button and a blue beam of light shot out of the lions muzzle. It shot across the length of the Gulran warship but sadly didn’t give as much damage as he had hoped. They really had gotten stronger since he was last out in space.
“Let’s try this.” He moved blues claw to rake the side of the ship instead.
“Nice job Lance!” Shiro looked impressed.
“Ok, I think its time to get these guys away from our planet.” He nudged Blue to start flying away from earth and out into space.
The Gulra followed behind them.
“Oh , no!” Hunk called out.
“They’re gaining on us!” Pidge yelled out, worried and nervous. “It’s weird. They’re not trying to shoot us. Th—they’re just chasing us.” He couldn’t tell what they were planning to do.
They sped through space, keeping an okay distance away from the ship.
“OK, seriously, now we think having aliens following us is good? I am not on board with this new direction, guys.” Hunk grumbled. “Where are we?” Keith asked, ignoring Hunks concern. Shiro pointed out the window as we sped past a planet. “Edge of the solar system. That’s Kerberos.”
“It takes months for our ships to get out this far. We got out here in five seconds.” Pidge stared out the window.
“What is that?!” Hunk interrupted as a worm hole opened in front of them.
Lance knew what they were obviously, but they didn’t know that.
“Uh, this may seem crazy, but I think the lion wants us to go through there.” He said to everyone behind him.
“Where does it go?” Pidge asked.
“I—I don’t know. Shiro you’re the senior officer here. What should we do?” He wants to pass this by him. He really didn’t know what was on the other side and wormholes can be tricky if you don’t know who they were formed or who activated it in the first place. You don’t know where you’ll end up.
Shiro answered evenly, “Whatever’s happening, the lion knows more than we do. I say we trust it, but we’re a team now. We should decide together.”
They all looked around at each other. Lance hesitated. “…Alright. Guess we’re all ditching class tomorrow.”
He let Blue speed up, going straight into the wormhole, hoping it would take them somewhere he knew.
They were shoved into a new part of the galaxy. One they didn’t recognize sat all. How far did they go out?
“I don’t recognize any of these constellations!” Shiro said surprised. Lance only recognized a few of them, but some have definitely changed. He stared longingly and the huge planet below them. He only knew the galaxy they were in, not the solar system. He would soon find out.
Blue nudged his brain, telling him to look to his left. There’s a planet there. Covered in clouds and resembling earth. It had definitely changed over the years, but just like the stars, he could recognize what it was. This was Arus. This was the last place the Castle of Lions had landed and stayed, before the war separated them. Blue must know its still there and is leading them to her home.
“Alright, lets go.” Blue swooped down towards the castle, nostalgia running through him as he saw his old home below him. Nothing was moving. He had only lived on the planet for a few years, but the castle… he was basically born there and knows everything about it. It was sad to see it so untouched and empty. He almost didn’t want to go inside when they got down there.
They landed in front of the castle. The entrance was looming and it took all of his will power to not just run up and through the gates to find out if anyone was home, despite not really wanting to go inside.
Blue raised her head. “Ohhh it’s going to eat us! I knew it!” Hunk yelled, ducking and covering his head with his hands. Lance scoffed under his breath.
Her head was well above them now as she opened her maw up and roared, the gate obeying her command to open.
Hunk glanced up and saw the open gate, “Oh, the door is open. Guess I was wrong about you.”
Lance walked slowly towards the gate, hoping the others would follow him in. they did. “Stay close and be carful, I don’t want to lose another crew.” Shiro warned.
They wandered through the halls, Pidge was taking most of the lead, curious about the alien tech. Lance was a bit behind, going through the memories of being in the castle as a home. Running through the halls when he was younger and going to classes when he was a bit older before he had to leave.
They soon reached the main room where the pods were. Startled by a hissing sound, they all turned towards two of the pods as they rose out. Lance didn’t think anyone would be in them, but as they came up further, he saw figures in them. Lance wandered closer, read to catch whoever fell out. He assumed it was one of his family members but he couldn’t be sure.
The door to the pod slid up to reveal a girl. Her eyes fluttered open as she stumbled forward and called out “Father!”, sounding desperate. Lance caught her in his arms easily. Even though it had clearly a long time, he would always recognize his sister. She was much older than he remembered, but she was beautiful as always.
She groaned, still waking up from who knows how long in the healing pod.
“Well, hello there.” He raised an eyebrow. He looked human right now, sure, but maybe she would recognize him. He always used to tease her this way. But of course, the others thought he was flirting with her, which, ew, that’s his younger sister.
She looked up at him, stunned. “Who are you people, what are you doing in the Castle!” she questioned. She had always been protective of her home.
“I’m Lance and you’re in my arms.” I joked, still having some hope that she would recognizing me, without having to say anything directly.
She looked up at him and glared. Then looked very surprised. Then confused.
“What is wrong with your ears!”
What.
He made a face.
“They’re hideous!” she exclaimed. She grabbed his ear and twisted his body down towards the ground. Damn she had gotten better at fighting since they were kids.
“Owowowowow” he sucked in a breath.
Thankfully, Shiro spoke up. “We don’t know where we are or who you are. All we know it we came in a strange blue lion robot thing.”
She was surprised by that. Which, fair, no one was supposed to have to Blue Lion, especially after he left.
“Well, I’m Allura, princess of Altea.” She introduced herself.
“How did you get the Blue Lion?” she didn’t wait for anyone to answer. “How long has it been?” she asked in a bit of a daze. Just then, the second pod that had risen let out a hiss and slid open to reveal a familiar orange mustache.
Coran fell out but this time he caught himself. Lance wasn’t going to catch him anyways. He loved Coran, but they played pranks on each other all the time. Maybe this time he would recognize Lance.
Coran stared at his face for a bit. Then tried to attack him. “E-Enemy combatants! Hya!” he tried to kick Lance as he stumbled out of the pod. “Quiznak! You’re lucky I have a case of the old ‘Sleep Chamber Knees’. Otherwise, I’d grab your head like this, wrap you up like so and – one, two, three-” He demonstrated a badly formed head lock. “- sleepy time!” He finished, snapping his fingers. Lance played along, “Well, before you did that, I’d - Hoo! Ha! Hiyah!” They went back and forth showing how they would’ve ‘beat’ each other.
Allura went over to the center and placed her hands on either side of the console, activating a holographic screen. Pidge was fascinated. “So that’s how that works!” he wondered out loud.
Allura starred at the screen in surprise. “It can’t be…” she turned to Coran, interrupting their banter, “Coran, we’ve been gone for 10,000 years…” Coran came over and looked at what she saw. “Everything’s gone. We are the last Altenas.” Sadness was heavy in her voice.
No… Lance couldn’t believe it. That how long it’s been? Time must move differently on earth because there was no way he was actually gone and on earth for 10,000 years, he’d be dead if had actually been one earth for 10,000….
Unless. Unless he had been in a stasis pod inside Blue and had only gotten out 12 years ago and was asleep the rest. That made the most sense. It really was the only explanation.
‘Its been too long, my sister needs me.’ At this point he didn’t care if he told his friends that he was actually an alien. He needed to comfort his sister. She needed him. He tried shifting back. He tried forcing his hair back white, for his ears to tip into points again, for the familiar Altena marks to surface on his cheekbones. But for some reason, nothing worked. He couldn’t shift back. He swallowed back the panic. He would figure that out later. As much as he wanted to hold his sister, comfort her, that would be weird for him as he was now and nether her nor Coran recognised him. Especially with his history of flirting, although it was more often a joke than not, with any pretty woman he saw. Besides, she had Coran right now. He had always been a sort of father figure to Allura and him when their father was away doing paladin work for the universe. They needed to get the rest of the Lions first. He was sure Allura knew where they all were.
Apparently, she had the same idea and shoved down her grief. She took control and activated the holograms that surrounded the room. “First thing to do. Find the rest of the Lions. And you are going to be their paladins.”
‘And I’ll find a way to tell you ‘Lura. Since I can’t say it outright.’
It was a struggle, not being able to help as much as he could. He knew a lot of things yet couldn’t say most of them. Something was still stopping him from doing so.
They made their home in the castle; this was their home now.
He sadly did not get his old room back, but it did make sense why. He did, however, make a passage to the room and went there most nights to read or slowly re decorate it like he used to. It was empty when he first got there, but he slowly made it like it used to be, while also decorating his ‘assigned room’ like how they would think the version they knew would decorate, (He did like decorating the ‘Lance’ way, but he wanted just a bit of his old life back, a way to preserve what he used to have in a way). He was glad he made that passage as he had forgotten about the numerous hidden shelves he had created along the walls of his old room. He had, not really surprisingly, had ‘permanently borrowed’ several books from the library and the royal library. Most still don’t know what happened to the books that disappeared and the ones that did are most likely dead. Except Coran, he was always a wildcard with what he knew.
Some more time has passed.
He wants to tell someone.
He still didn't know exactly why he couldn't tell anyone.
He knew it was a part of some kind of curse, but maybe it was something in him too.
He doesn't know why, but he feels... scared? To tell them now.
He's not sure.
Maybe the fear of them rejecting him for not telling them sooner or the pressure of why he left in the first place. Of course, he can't exactly vouch for what his old self did.
So, what if... what if he did tell someone.
Just one person for now.
To test the waters.
And maybe he can set up a plan to leave encase anything goes wrong... but who to tell.
Allura is out of the question. He knows her best and her being the first wouldn't go over well. At least not yet. Not really anyone on the team would know anything.
Except maybe Shiro. After his time in the Gulran prisons he might have hear things, but the chances of that are slim.
The lions... they already know. Same with the mice, though no one knew he can talk with them, not even Allura who also talks to them often.
That really only leaves Coran. Not a bad choice. He knows Coran won't do anything too bad. Coran was always like a second dad to Allura and him, especially when their dad was away for war or meetings. He just doesn’t know how he’ll react exactly, and Coran hasn’t even shown any sign of acknowledging his old self, though that could just be him way of dealing with grief. It should be ok to tell him.
Yes. The decision is made. He’ll tell Coran first. But how. And when. How do you tell someone something without telling them directly. He can't talk Altena and he's still stuck in human form around everyone; he already tested that in the first few days back in space.
There are a few places in the castle that humans wouldn't know about. He's known to be a bit snoopy so it might be passed off as just a normal Lance thing to find a new place, but he could push Coran to think of something else. He'll have to play around with that. It will probably turn out to be a trial-and-error type of thing.
Oh! Maybe he could get him to find him in his old room! That might work. That place is supposed to be hidden still after he put a spell on it before leaving! That might even trigger an alarm or add to the map during Coran’s clean through of the castle!
Yes. But when. Maybe just when the time feels right? Or just let it happen, when he has time? Yeah, best to just wait and find a good opening. Maybe closer to night, when everyone would be signing off for the day.
It did end up happen on its own, after getting back from helping yet another planet be free from Zarkon. He was reading a book that got preserved in one of his secret stashes from the library and it ended up keeping it in pristine condition.
He had easily lost track of time reading up on the old stories. He was alone in his old room and wasn’t expecting to be found or disturbed yet, as no one knew he had access, let alone knew, about this room. So, his body had let his human disguise fall and he got comfy in the softly lit-up room with a book in his hands, just like he used to.
That was, until, over the emergency intercom, Coran’s voice came down, waking him up from his trance of a good book.
“Lance, may I come in? ”
Ah, he had forgotten about that. This room is hidden so only the owner of the spell put on the room can open it. Though that did not explain how, or why, Coran wanted to get in, or how he knew in the first place. He wanted Coran to know, but this might be a bit to early and Lance was not mentality prepared yet..
He got up from his comfy spot and moved himself to the ‘entrance’, which was just a slightly indented rectangle in the wall. He pressed his hand lightly against the wall and swiped left, bringing the entrance to wherever Coran was. Presumably where to old entrance used to be. Right next to Allura’s.
The door slid open and he was met with Coran’s face shoved right in his. He stepped back just as Coran did, mirroring him by accident. Croan stared. It was only then did he realise that his marks and Altena features, along with his old clothing were still visible and not forcibly hidden my mysteriously hidden by magic and covered with his human style. Why? He doesn’t think he’ll ever know. At least, not any time soon.
Lance made a split-second decision and quickly pulled Coran into the room, shut the door and moved it, scared Allura would find it next if she was around this part of the castle. As much as he wanted to actually talk to his sister as himself, he didn’t quite feel ready for that to happen just yet.
Coran just stood there where Lance had pulled him. He no doubt recognised him this way. Although he had changed, some parts were definitely still recognisable.
“A- Alon…zo?” he stammered out his name. He never really did like that name, despite it meaning noble and ready for battle, he always found that it didn’t suite him that well, especially now that he’s changed and had gotten so used to being called ‘Lance’ .
Lances scratched the back of his neck, clearly nervous. He really didn’t expect anyone to find out this early. Though he knew nothing of the caster or the spell that was placed on him so anything is in the range of possibility. Though he was glad it ended up being Coran, just like he wanted.
“I prefer Lance now, Coran.” He stepped back to the bed and sat down hard, letting himself fall down on his back with his hands stretched out on either side of him. Coran, still staring, slowly stretched out a hand to brush his knee, as if to feel him to make sure he was real and not just an apparition or illusion.
“But… how?” he questioned, sounding rather confused and concerned, for good reason. “You were gone. No one knew what happened to you and we were all so worried when we couldn’t find you. What happened my boy?” He looked distressed now. Lance felt bad for putting him though that.
He sat up from the bed and patted the spot beside him, inviting Coran to sit. He did. “Blue got me to earth and dropped me in the waters. I think, from what I could tell, I was actually in a pod for a while before I got to Cuba. From there I got into an earthen space program to try and get back here. I’m sorry I left. I didn’t mean to run away but it felt like to much. I- I didn’t want that kind of responsibility. I was better in the sky flying around and helping people like we are now. But father… father always pushed Allura and me farther that I could handle.” Lance curled in on himself, not really expecting the wave of emotions finally surfacing once he started talking. He had always felt bad about it. Taking to long to get back though he understood why Blue did it, it doesn’t help the guilt he feels now, watching Coran’s face as he tells him what happened. He listened intently and with care. But also concerned, like a dad would.
When he was done Coran didn’t say anything, he just opened his arms and invited him into a hug.
Lance, finally giving into emotion, collapsed into his arms and sobbed. He hugged Coran, holding him tightly close to him. Coran hugged him back, letting the centuries of unshed tears stain his tunic. He let Lance cry out all his tears, letting all his grief and guilt flow out. This wouldn’t fix everything, but it would help, even just a little. Coran was still a bit confused on the how’s and why’s, but he would let the boy rest for now.
It took awhile but eventually Lance calmed down and they just sat there, taking in each others presence.
Lance spoke up again first, interrupting the fragile silence.
“I didn’t run away… if that what you were thinking. I was hanging out in Blues hanger wither when she somehow put me in some kind of stasis pod in her body and hid me in there before going to hide on earth. I’m assuming she knew what was going to happen and wanted to preserve me to be her paladin after her other one inevitable died in battle.”
“I’m so sorry you had to go through all that alone.” Lance gave a small shrug. “I had blue and shapeshifting. I made a family on earth and came back here. I’d say it worked out decently.”
“Thankyou for being here for me. For not being mad at hiding myself…”
“Of course, my boy. I will always be here for you. The entire way I will be with you to help when you need it.”
After that, things went back to mostly being normal. He knew he had to tell the rest of them at some point, but Coran knowing was enough for him at the moment. He thinks Allura knows something’s up with Lance and Coran, but Coran is pretty good at keeping her off their tails until Lance was ready.
They talked more and Coran got to hear many more stories of his time on earth when Coran approached him, wanting to know his new self.
It was sweet. Finally knowing he had someone to turn too when the longing and nostalgia got bad. The days where all he wanted was the comfort of another Altena.
He still wants Allura, but he’s already so grateful he got this far. Just a little longer. That’s all he needed. And Coran will always be there for support.
Just a bit longer Allura.
Then we can be together again.