[ video -> voice | un: keith ]

[tempredmental]

[The video was brief, kind of like that moment when you activated the camera on your phone and forgot it was in selfie mode. The omni shook and rotated, leaving the viewer with a dizzying array of scenery that was kind of blurry and hard to make out. It was dark, though, like the person broadcasting was in a closed room with no lights on.

As the video shifted, glimpses of a person could be seen. A hand... the fingernails-turned-claws bitten down short as if trying to cover the transformation... a burn scar on the right side of a face... dark, almost black, hair with a purple tint, long-ish, shaggy looking, a thin white streak with a extremely slight violet hue to it near the left temple... pale skin... deep cobalt eyes that looked exhausted with dark tired bruises underneath from lack of sleep...]

Shit-...

[And the video was gone. It was just voice now, Keith's voice, but raspier than usual, worn sounding, loaded with regret and guilt and just... sad.]

I um... [He was hesitant. Unsure.] I wanted to... apologize. [His tone faltered, like he was searching for words, having trouble forming them and getting them out.] I... I did a lot of stuff last month. Just um... Yeah. The Reckoning took care of it.

But... if you still want... you know. Fine. I understand. I won't stop you.

[And then the feed shut off.]

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[azurestar]

[It's his empathic ability that allows him to pick up on the fact that Keith isn't trying to awkwardly shoo him away. Even despite all evidence in front of him and all the things he told to Keith himself, he can't help but feel like he's going to be shunned after Keith saw what he did to Allura. He's kept it bottled in his heart for so long out of fear and shame that it's hard for him to believe that it's just being accepted so easily.

For this moment, though, he can tell that Keith would appreciate the company and he's also hurting over his own struggle. So he swallows all of that turmoil and gives the slightest, trembling smile as he comes over to sit down on the ground with his back up against the couch like Keith had done for him a few months prior now after Hunk left.]

[tempredmental]

[If anything, Keith was certainly grateful Lance stayed. And, while he couldn't fully process everything they'd shared in the barn right now, he would eventually. For now, though, it was enough to just curl up on the couch knowing someone else was there... and that was what he did.]