Mind Meld

The Altean mind meld headbands were amazing pieces of technology, no doubt about that. But sometimes they reveal things you don't want them to.

One aspect of being a paladin none of them were getting used to quickly was the mind melding.

When the five of them formed Voltron, they were more like a single unit. They could feel everything the others were feeling, and while that was useful in life or death situations, it wasn’t so great when one of them got distracted, or someone’s emotions got in the way. And as Pidge had so eloquently put it that first day, sometimes you didn’t want everyone all up in your head hole.

Unfortunately, Allura was unrelenting. She didn’t seem to understand that intense emotions were just part of being a teenage human, and as a result the mind melding headbands made repeat appearances during training, much to everyone’s chagrin.

Today’s training was no different. They had only freed the Balmera the day before, but Allura had them up at the same time that morning, doing their same training, and after their lunch break the paladins found themselves filing back onto the training deck to sit in their loose circle and pretend having the others in their minds didn’t creep them out.

“Do we have to do this today, Allura?” Lance dared to grumble as he fumbled with the headband. “We freed an entire planet yesterday. Do Alteans not have a concept of time off?”

“Zarkon will not give you ‘time off’.” Allura said, just as she always did when someone asked for a break she felt was unwarranted. “Now focus! We’re doing emotion exercises today.”