[Keith notices that smugness and while he doesn't grin at it, the smug smirk is matched in full; it even shows in his blue-violet eyes. It paid off. Good.]

We'll see. Friendships tend to help with that, as does a common enemy. [And they all have one; a faceless and nameless one, but the threat does exist. Hopefully that will be enough, if she can talk to them.] So does my team, aside from personal missions. Still need to talk to Lance and Pidge about it, and when she arrives, Allura, too.

[She's the politician of the group, after all; Give him a battlefield or a war room and he's fine. Diplomats? Well, his team knows how well the first one went.]