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[Keith almost spit.]

I really doubt that

'Least someone got to read them at all. And it got to be you. [ Hey, the one upside, and he grins as he adds: ] Bet it helped make you the giant nerd you are today. Teacher.

[ Respectfully calling your teacher a nerd because you can, xoxo. ]

Teacher? [She snorts there, giving him a gentle shove of the shoulder.] That makes you a teacher's pet, kiss up.

Now did you notice the difference between the earthquake and lava rune-chains?

[One of them has a modified fire rune and the other has a rune for lightning.]

Why? Is he dating someone else?

Naaaaahhhhh, [ he drags out at kiss up, pushing out his arms from where they've been resting against table. He then laughs, moves back in again to check out the runes. And oh, this is easy, tapping a finger beside them. ]

Different elements. [ He can tell that. The real question is if he's got them the right way round: ] Uh, an electrical discharge for mimicking the vibrations of an earthquake, a fire because--fire is really hot?

[ Very wow smart-sounding explanation? ]

[Saeri nods, tapping at the earthquake rune.]

Got this one. The lava-rune is because lava is just overheated rock. It melts earth to turn it into lava. And both of these are elemental combo runes. There's other kinds that have been developed over the centuries, but these two are some of the earliest. Nice and simple for beginners.

[Uh...]

No

[Oh quiznak.]

Its kinda complicated

[Oh. Oh. There is so much more here. She would be pulling up a chair right now if she wasn't already in one.]

Life's complicated.
I'm all for complicated.
Go on.

[Oh. That backfired, didn't it? Keith mentally cursed.]

Well like Were kinda rivals I think He says we are I dont know But were teammates And its awkward

Huh. [ Making earthquakes or lava might be cool in general, but Robby nods at them. ] But what do you use them for? Extreme landscaping?

[ What's the practical uses? ]

[So very much so. And obviously this guy is too blind to see the writing on the wall here.]

Rival is just another term for sexual tension caused by imbalances in relationship dynamics. He sees you as a rival while also wanting you as an equal.

I wonder how much of an equal. Either of you ever almost died for the other or been severely injured trying to protect each other?

[Okay, that wasn't helping him feel better.]

Not exactly

[Like, Lance had saved Coran that way, but that didn't count. But Keith did kind of almost ram his ship into another one to try stopping a planet-sized bomb from destroying Voltron... but that was for the whole team! Not just for Lance!]

How "exactly" is it?

Spare no details, friend, I'm here for you.

Yeah. Terraforming can be really important for managing areas that were hit by natural disasters and need complete reconstruction and redevelopment. Back before we had AIMs to help do a lot of this, they had to have other ways of handling it.

Make sense?

Yeah. [ He's even got a small smile on his face as he replies. ] Turn the ground into lava to make it easier to move to and from, and-- could you use something like this to break down rubble or stuff like trees?

[ He's tapping the earthquake rune crafted by a lightning spell. ]

It's pretty cool anyway.

Breaking things, helping fix rivers, building lakes, or using lava as a means of redistributing fresh soil for agriculture and holding water to soil of drought-ridden locations to help with vegetation.

[She pauses for a moment, thinking back to when she'd first seen the basic elemtental runes used in reconstruction.]

First job I ever did with the Inkmetal Forge was fixing up a town after major flooding. The amount of earth displaced that we needed to move was hell, but runes like this made it a lot easier.

It's all machines where I'm from, but you always hear about everything breaking apart anyway. [ Even with them. He wonders how things would be different with runes like this, but all things considered, he doubts life is all that much better where Saeri is from. He doesn't have that optimism to believe.

Still: ] But I like it, magic like this. Doing fire or ice out of your hands is cool, [ sure, a small shrug, ] but magic that can help? Bending it into a tool?

[ Yeah, it's more than pretty cool. He glances about the room, but settles on Saeri. ]

You miss it?

[ He thinks he would, compare to here. ]

I miss working with everyone and knowing we're making a difference. [She misses everyone, too, but that's not what he asked.]

We used machines, too. AIMs. Huge piloted armors we use for construction and emergency response. But you know...powered by rune magic. Back in the day they used to use things like excavators and bulldozers but you have so much more control with an AIM.

[ ..... ]

Friedn?

[Granted, he'd already said Lance's name, and this hadn't exactly been anonymous. He wasn't too sure about giving too many more details than that.]

We just have a history Went to the same school Hes alwyas called himself my rival But were teammates I consider him a friend at least But its been weird since I got here Something about me having been her before and hes upset that I forgot or something

Okay, yeah, armoured construction piloting? That's something out of a cartoon where I'm from. [ But it's said with a laugh, something surprised. ]

So when are you gonna make one of those to hire out? I dunno, even magical bulldozers might catch this place up a few hundred years. It could do with an emergency construction crew every time something goes crazy.

[ He's grinning, half-joking, but really, Robby wonders if she couldn't be doing bigger and better. She's got the ambition for it. ]

What else happens when you mistakenly send a text to a random person? This ain't a meet-cute, so friendship.

But you've come across the tried and true problem of a place like Deer. Most of the people who come and go and come back don't remember being here.

It's not your fault, but I'm betting something important happened last time that meant a lot to him. Maybe you bonded in a way that feels weird to try and repeat because it's not organic.

Like falling in love with your rival-teammate-friend and not knowing how to tell him.

[Oh yeah she's not letting that go.]

Didn't really have time to watch cartoons, but that's not surprising. A lot of stuff I'm used to people think are from books and other fictional media.

[She's not offended at all. She's found a bunch of things people told her pretty crazy, too.]

Unfortunately, to power a full sized AIM suit, I'd need a lot more power than what I can scrounge up right now. My stones and crystals aren't strong enough and if I used straight blood I'd have to like...bathe the thing in it.

[ Hey, it's probably very sci-fi. Unfortunately, Robby's never been big on the sci-fi angle for comparison. ]

Well, if you wanted to go in the business, I still think you'd have work for it. Someone was telling me about how this place got flooded before - you know about that? That's why some people started that Outpost building out in the woods.

It's apparently a place just for Sleepers if anything happens to the city.

[ Which he sure has his own feelings about, but you know. ]

[Keith read that a few times. Well, at least the part about something important happening that he didn't remember because of going home and coming back again. He frowned a bit, deciding to focus on that more than the rest of it. (So not talking about the whole falling in love thing... definitely not.)]

He did mention something about us like Bonding more or something Back in the dream And he like got upset about it That I didnt remember

[OH GOD... no. Keith didn't want to think too hard about this. Nope.]

[Good to know her assumptions are being vindicated, but that just means she's going to push this even more.]

So you did have a more intimate relationship. And since you don't remember he's upset because it feels like he's lost something.

The only way to fix that is talk it out or make a move yourself. What do you want in your relationship? If he wants more, would you be cool with that?

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Now that Sarona has become a true klancer...

she's been pulled in