#Goose goose duck airlock free#

A sapphire lake sparkled in the very center of it all, its surface decorated with dozens of tiny sailboats. Down below, a winding river and criss-crossing tram tracks and small dirt roads connecting fields of flowers and rocky ravines with miles of colorful tents. Above them, hot air balloons and bi-planes and tiny unmanned drones. In every direction was something to be in awe of. The others were letting out whistles and hums of appreciation around him, and Lance wholeheartedly agreed. But the scale of this place wasn’t even the half of it. If this was merely the top of the volcano, it was dizzying to consider what the other edge of the dropoff would look like, down the long sloping side of Rona―which was bigger than Olympus Mons, according to Shiro. Below them extended the valley, and all around them extended the ridges of the volcano, a veil of mountain ridges stretching the perimeter, tapering into the valley below. The castle had come down on the northernmost ridge, at one of the highest points. It was hard to even process that this whole place was the top of a single volcano. This summit was an enormous valley, miles across, bigger than any mountain top he’d ever walked on. He vaguely remembered Coran mentioning that the Noq r’Nai festival (Wonders of Life―Coran had translated happily from the invitation) took place on the summit of a large dormant volcano called Rona, but hadn’t really registered what that meant. Lance went slack-jawed as his eyes adjusted to the white-blue light of Krossin’s distant neutron star, and he almost stumbled as he and the other paladins followed Allura and Coran out onto the grass to take in the view laid out before them. After you, Princess.”Ī happy, childlike grin rapidly overtook Allura’s regal professionalism, and then a brilliant chink of light shone into the castle hall as she opened the front doors to the mountain they’d landed on twenty minutes ago. “Some kind of carnival, he says! What an understatement! Allura, I think it’s high time to show the paladins precisely how and where we’re going to be spending the next three days. “I thought this was like, some kind of carnival.”Ī chortle bubbled of out Coran’s throat as he slapped his side in amusement. “You make it sound like we’re going into battle,” Hunk laughed worriedly on Lance’s other side. The paladins exchanged a few sibling-like glances with each other, and Pidge shrugged at Lance when he raised an eyebrow at her.

#Goose goose duck airlock free#

“Once the parade is over you’ll be free to participate as you please, so as you go about the festival, please demonstrate proud examples to our newest allies of what we are capable of as a team. “Don’t forget, we must be on our absolute best behavior for the duration of this festival,” she reminded them for the third time. Once everyone was gathered in the entrance hall of the castle, Allura raised her hand to the keypad by the doors and shot them all one final warning look.