Yes, he is fine now. [She is quick to assure him, her hands grasping Keith's just that little tighter. She hates herself that she accidentally stated that one word the shade behind her spoke.

'He died again, and this time you could not bring him back. You weren't there, daughter.'

They were as fine as they can be, considering the circumstances surrounding their latest memories. Lance had found her earlier, and told her they wake up in a Garrison hospital. Yet this-]

It happened not long before you returned to us with your mother, Romelle, and Kosmo. The Fire of Purification attacked a Galra outpost that shields a supply planet from constant radiation belt assaults. We were attempting to repair the solar shields when...

[Suddenly, whatever the shade said no longer mattered. She was back in Red's cockpit, holding an unresponsive Lance in her arms. Their armor unable to disguise the scent of electrical burns.]

The plate we repaired shorted out. He tackled me out of the way, but Red was not fast enough for him to escape as well. I'd made it to his side in time that my alchemy could bring him back.

[He'd saved her, and she'd saved him in turn.] None of the others know, and I am sorry this is the way you had to learn this.

[He didn't need to have this on his shoulders as well.]