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[Soon after Leia receives the gift and the note attached with it, she reaches out to Allura over the amulet. It's a thoughtful gift, made all the more thoughtful due to not knowing the other princess all that well. ...In all honesty, part of Leia does have to wonder just how many royals are here now, but that's a question for yet another time.]

I wanted to thank you for your kind gift, on behalf of both Han and myself.

Ah, Leia! Of course, and congratulations. How have things been while we were away?

Busy. At least on my end.

[Because even if the work is split between her and Han and a lot of help from Usagi, planning a wedding is a lot of work.]

I'm a bit jealous of everyone who went on the excursion. It sounded like it would be interesting.

I'd be surprised if it wasn't; joining two lives together is quite the task I've been told.

It was, once we actually made it to the ruins. The trek was a bit more draining than I'd like though, between the quicksand, sandstorms, and fighting giant mechanical lions. [Wait what was that last one?] Still, at least no one got injured besides the poor lions, so that's good.

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It's certainly not something we'd have been able to throw together on shorter notice than we had.

[Maybe it wouldn't have been as daunting if they had planned it for more than about a month. But well, they wanted to be sure to get it done while as many people important to them were here as possible.

And between all those items on that list, there's one that has Leia's attention the most. And that is--]

Giant mechanical lions?

Ah, yes. There was a group of giant winged lions that attacked us on the way to the oasis. At first they looked like organic beings, but it turned out they were constructs of a sort. [There's a slight wistfulness there.] It's a shame we had to destroy them in order to keep the others safe. I tried to see if they would be able to speak and negotiate via telepathy, but they weren't intelligent enough to understand me.

If they're anything like droids, I'd have a hard time thinking them capable of telepathy.

[She doesn't think R2 or 3PO would be capable of anything like the time she's heard Luke's voice in her head back home. Here, if they had a crystal, maybe something could work, but with no droids, there's no way of knowing.]

It sounds like you have some experience with them, though.

[Judging by that wistfulness.]

[Who knows, they have thoughts of their own. Who knows, R2-D2's sass might even be translated if the crystals are kind enough.

And any way, Allura's lions are MUCH more capable of telepathy.]

I do; my father built five of them. They're meant to preserve peace in our universe. Some might view them as mere weapons, but they have minds and hearts of their own.

[She knew that the lions here weren't QUITE like the ones back home, but was still enough to cause a slight twinge of regret at having to resort to destroying them.]

[The crystals can't handle R2's sass, let's be real here.]

I can't say I've heard of anything similar, here or at home, but functional droids and large machinery are something we have an abundance of. Can I ask what your lions are like?

[Beyond, you know, being robots. She's curious.]

I think... it might be easier to show than to tell.

[And more impressive. Leia's mind will be filled with an image of five MASSIVE lions in five different colors, towering and proud, bright yellow eyes somehow looking alive. Different emotions swirl around them all. Open, trusting, enthusiastic Blue; strong, steady, caring Yellow; clever, curious, daring Green; brash, fierce, protective Red; and then majestic, powerful Black. Lions with bonds to their pilots, their Paladins. Lions with mind and souls, unimaginable powers just waiting to be unlocked.

Impressive on their own, but when they form Voltron? It truly is incomparable.]

[Leia watches the images Allura sends with interest. They look more like something of her galaxy than anything here, but even then, they were distinctly different from anything she'd ever seen back home. Droids often could be mistaken for something alive, they had their own personalities, but even those feel different from the images Allura sent.]

Impressive. I've never seen anything like these before.

[There's definitely a note of calm pride that comes through the link now.]

Thank you. My father worked hard to create them.

How do they work?

[Because sure, she'd seen images, and Allura said they were used for defense, but Leia has Many Questions here.]

To put it simply, they choose and form bonds with paladins- pilots, if you will- in order to guide them and to unlock their powers. I think the closest equivalent here would be riding these... horses; the lion can move on its own accord, but with a paladin its full potential is unlocked. And when those paladins have a strong enough bond between each other, they're also able to combine their lions to form Voltron.

Incredible. Even more so that as machinery, they're able to form bonds. Not that the droids where I'm from can't, but the bonds they form aren't like this, and they're still largely machine.

Honestly, I'd be more surprised if there were more machines out there with their level of sapience. There's a reason I was so surprised to find the ones in the desert.

They weren't able to come with you here, were they?

Unfortunately no. It would have been hard to find a place to put them here anyway, especially since the Castle of Lions didn't come with my arrival. Ah well, at least the paladins were able to procure a very nice house before I arrived.

You were able to find people you know here?

[There's a bit of relief behind Leia's words, because she can imagine how it feels to be dropped here with no one you know, and it's not a feeling she wants to ever have. She knows there are plenty of people here where that's the case, and that she's one of the most fortunate ones to have so many people from her galaxy that she gets along decently with here, so she can't help but feel for those without people here for them.]

But, I can understand that feeling. No ships from my galaxy made their way here, despite so many of us being here in Verens.

I was; apparently all five of my paladins had been brought here before me, as well as one of our Galra allies.

I suppose living beings are easier to bring over than non-sapient machines and vehicles.

[Not to mention it'd defeat the purpose of being brought here to help this planet if you automatically gave them a way to escape.]

[Look if it brought the Falcon, the hyperdrive probably wouldn't even work anyway.

But of what Allura said, one word in particular there catches Leia's attention. Galra. She'd heard that before, from someone else here.]

Is one of your paladins named Hunk, by any chance?

Oh! Yes he is, have you met then?

Yes, I've spoken with him before. We discussed space travel.

[and other things. But it was nice to meet someone else who had experience with it and wasn't from her galaxy.]

[More of that pride comes through the link, some mix between a commandeer to her soldiers and a big sister to her younger sibling.]

He's quite smart, isn't he? He's the paladin of the Yellow Lion. You wouldn't happen to know Keith, Pidge, Lance, or Shiro as well, would you?

[That first mix of pride, that's something Leia's felt before, she knows it well. And the both of them together give Leia an idea just how close Allura must be to her paladins.]

I've met someone by the name of Shiro, and another who mentioned someone named Pidge, but regrettably I didn't get his name.

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