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sweet sun, send me the moon | part 1 | angst + hurt/comfort

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Shiro doesn’t find out about the Lions until later, until Atlas is detransformed and parked and that turns out to be an ordeal all its own, one that occupies him for hours. Piloting Atlas takes as much from him as the Black Lion did—more, in some ways, but it gives, too. By the time they’re back on solid ground, Shiro is exhausted down to his bones and alive like he hasn’t been in years.

He needs it. That energy, that faith, that confidence are all that get him through the next two days. That’s how long it takes them to dig Keith out of his Lion.

Two days.

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