[As strange as it was, Shiro had never really admitted that what he had been through had been hard. The others had kind of picked up on that, but it was never his own words. It was like they knew, but it was off limits to ask so at the same time, Shiro never volunteered. He was the leader of Voltron; he couldn't show them that he had problems.

But now, as he sat there with Hana, it was Black in the back of his head telling him that he needed to talk to her, talk to someone. And he knew it was right]

The Galra are a society that seems to function on survival of the fittest. So they throw a lot of their younger, more capable prisoners into their arena to fight to the death. I saved my teammate Matt from fighting and defeated the opponent they had wanted him to fight, but that was probably what got their attention in the first place.

[That he had survived]