Warning: Spoilers for VLD Season 3 trailer!!!
Crimson coated the chains. Darkness consumed the cell, and Shiro barely lifted his head when she came in.
Every day, Lotor’s general asked one question; every day, Shiro remained silent. She waited three full minutes before forcing water down his throat and wiping the blood from his face. Then she left.
That was before they threw him back into the arena, before they made him fight again, before he almost lost his remaining human arm.
She met him in the cell immediately after the fight, screaming at the arena’s physicians to save him. He was Lotor’s precious hostage. He needed to remain alive.
The next day, their routine began again, but this time, she asked nothing, just thrust the tube into his mouth and threw water down it. After swiping the cool, wet towel across his face, she leaned close to his ear to whisper, “They are coming for you. The Paladins. I transmitted your location to Kolivan. He will inform your team and bring them to Castle Doom.”
She added after a moment of hesitation, “Tell my brother I love him.”
As she pulled away, Shiro grunted to give chase. “His favorite color is red, of course, but he sometimes wears blue. And it brings out the violet in his eyes. He puts bacon on everything - seriously. Even pineapple…cough.”
With tears shimmering in her eyes, the general lifted the water bottle to Shiro’s lips, and this time, Shiro drank.
“…pineapple pizza,” he continued after swallowing, his voice still hoarse from lack of use. “He likes hover bikes and piloting and iced coffee. And he’s passionate and difficult and fiercely loyal to those he loves. And he desperately wants to meet you.”
Even if Keith didn’t know he had a sister. Perhaps the greatest gift Shiro could ever give Keith was his family.
The general bowed her head, overcome with emotion, and when she eventually raised her head, she wore a tender grin.
Every day, she had come into his cell, and every day, she had asked only one question.
“Is my brother truly your right arm?”
Today, he answered her. Keith really was.
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