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"Rooms"
Coran loved Allura like a daughter, and he didn't mind the mice she had a mind link with, but he swore Platt liked stealing his stuff. He knew it was Platt because he saw him run off down the hall with it. He decided to give chase, hoping to catch up to the mouse and get his property back. As he rounded a corner, he saw the doors to a room open and close. Ah ha! So the mouse was trying to hide in a room. Coran would have his...oh.
Coran stopped just inside the room. It was full of stuff. There was tech from around the universe and what appeared to be junk, but there was probably some use for it, since it was there. He was confused a little bit though. He wasn't near the storage rooms, so why was this room being used as storage? He sighed as he figured he wasn't going to recover his property that quintant, so he should probably start moving the stuff to the proper room. He started to pick up a pile of trash when something on the desk caught his eye. It was a picture of Pidge and her brother, Matt, before the Kerberos Mission. Coran blinked and realized that this must be Pidge's room, but why was all this tech in there? The realization of it being Pidge's room was confirmed when he was just barely able to spot the Green Lion slippers by the bed. Coran was about to back out of the room, when he saw Platt exiting the room and gave chase.
The mouse skidded into a nearby room followed by the Altean advisor. Coran stopped short, recognizing the slightly messy room of the Blue Paladin if the Blue Paladin pajamas and Blue Lion slippers were anything to go by. There were also an insane amount of pillows on the bed and the closet was open, revealing several different outfits the Paladin could wear. However, unlike Pidge's room, Coran could see where Platt had run to, but the mouse was quick enough to evade capture and run out of Lance's room and into the next room over.
Coran followed the space mouse into the next room, figuring it was another Paladin's room, and he was correct. It was a neat room, except for the desk, which was covered with tech he remembered Hunk tinkering with earlier that movement. The Yellow Paladin pajamas were on the bed and the Yellow Lion slippers next to the bed confirmed this as Hunk's room.
Platt dove between Coran's legs, heading for the exit. Coran figured that the mouse wanted him to see the Paladins' rooms for some reason, so instead of catching the mouse (for the moment), he would follow him to the rooms of the last two Paladins.
The next room's occupant was only distinguishable by the Black Lion slippers by the bed. That wasn't to say the room was bare. There were trinkets from the various worlds they had liberated from Galran rule all over Shiro's room. Coran smiled at the homely feeling he had received from the four Paladins' rooms (mostly Lance's, Hunk's, and Shiro's), and the smile was still there when he left Shiro's room and entered Keith's.
The advisor stopped short. He looked around at the bare room. Did he accidentally miss Keith's room, and this was an unoccupied room? A closer look at the bed allowed Coran to notice the slightly different way the blanket had been folded, which told him this room was indeed occupied. Where were the items that made it home to the Red Paladin? The Red Lion slippers weren't even set by his bedside like the others were. It disturbed Coran that it looked like Keith hadn't made an attempt to make the room his, which either meant the Paladin didn't have any possessions (unlikely since the others were able to get some) or Keith had had prior experience making his presence as unnoticeable as possible. That wouldn't do. Coran knew each Paladin's room was equipped with lion slippers. Maybe if he set the Red ones out, Keith would realize that it was okay to let himself be noticed. It didn't take long to find the slippers, and Coran put them by the bedside, just like the other's had in their rooms. Coran slipped out of the room, a smile on his face, but didn't realize Keith was coming up from behind him.
Keith noticed Coran coming out if his room and was confused. Why had Coran been in his room? However, he wasn't about to call out to him, since he hadn't noticed him. He simply entered his room and set his bayard on the desk and hung his jacket on the hook on the wall. He had had a good session on the training deck and was looking forward to taking a long, hot shower.
Once his shower was done, Keith reentered his room, pulling on a clean set of clothes. He sat on the bed, ready to fix his hair when he noticed something new. He bent down and picked up a pair of lion slippers, specifically Red Lion slippers. Keith realized that Coran must have set them out for him to use. Keith hugged them to his chest, glad to have a sign that the people whose house he was living in wanted him to have stuff in his room. Maybe the next time they stopped at the Space Mall, he would pick up something.
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