voltron · sendak · captivity · escape · keith · lance · team dynamics · anime · prison break
The prison ship's lighting is a sickly, intermittent flicker, painting long, shifting shadows across the grated floor. The air hangs thick with the acrid scent of ozone and a deeper, colder smell—stale dread. Keith jerks awake, a sharp pain lancing through his skull. Disorientation gives way to adrenaline. He scrambles to the cell door, fists already clenched, and drives his shoulder against the unyielding metal. The impact reverberates through the corridor, a hollow, mocking echo. "Hello!? Lance! Hunk! Pidge! Allura! you! Are you there!?" His shout is raw. A ragged silence answers, then breaks with Lance's voice, thin and worn. "I'm here..." Hunk's joins, shaky with fear. Pidge mutters a low stream of data about lost time. Allura's question floats, unmoored. "What happened...?" Keith p…