[ lance's eyes narrow at the grin, but it's more in a "how can you smile about this, isn't this pretty heavy stuff?" kind of way than anything suspicious. ]

So now you know you're half-Galra and you have a magical shape-shifting knife-sword.

[ god you're such an anime protag.

he looks down at their linked hands, his own fingers absently flexing. ]

...Did you really have no clue about your parents before that?

[ it's that thing again, the glaring difference between them. lance tries to imagine how he'd feel if he didn't have any clue about his family, where he came from... or to grow up without the kind of love and support he'd grown up with.

honestly he wonders if he'd grow up to be even half the man keith is. ]