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--ome in! Anyone!

[Yikes, man, tone down the yelling. The voice is frantic. Rightfully so, considering the last thing he remembered was being ejected into space. This is not the planet he thought he'd wind up on. There are humans here, and it looks like Earth.]

[But there's weird animals here. And no one seems concerned about a yelling, very upset man who just appeared out of nowhere.]

I don't know what's happened! I -- I need pickup, immediately!

[Yeah, he maybe only half listened to the explanations, but seriously, things were bad a minute ago.]

Pidge! Coran! [And then, almost grudgingly:] Lance -- someone pick up! This is Shiro and something's gone wrong! I don't know where I am -- I don't know what's happened, but I need someone to answer me now!

[Give him a few minutes to calm down. To pace and refocus himself. To listen and read up on the situation. Anyone who happens by the area sometime after the basically panicked broadcast can find him in New Bark Town. Under a tree, just...]

[What is he supposed to do now?]

[There's an Aron huddled up by his leg, but he doesn't seem to pay it much attention, right now.]

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[All right.]

[He'll do just that.]

[And when the light clears -- there is something small, silver and black, attached to an equally silver and black arm.]

[And cooing.]

...

Um.

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"Stop Licking My Arm".

[Although whether that's the nickname or an actual plea to the critter to stop doing said thing, it's hard to tell, with how deadpan his delivery is.]

Well.

That's what it's doing. So... [He gives said arm a little shake. Metal clinking against the Aron's hide.] ... that's probably not healthy. Stop it.

[Steel type. Wow, isn't that ironic.]

Aron... huh.

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say if I ask any other questions about it, the answers are going to be "in the backpack" somewhere, right?

[He gives his arm a few more little shakes in hopes of dislodging the Aron, to no avail.]

I can take a look. Thank you.

Shiro -- I'd do the handshake thing, but... [This is a video call and also the Aron.]

How big do these things usually get?

[He almost says 'bigger or smaller than a lion' before... realizing that's a bad frame of reference for almost every other human being on the planet.]

... Well. It's black.

Kuro?

[Oh my god.]

I thought you said this thing was called an "Aron"?

[Why are you using different words.]

I'll try the other metal first. There's... got to be soda cans or something.

You don't... happen to know what those circumstances are, do you?

[Because he would really rather this thing doesn't get giant while it's attached to his arm thanks.]

Through stones?

[Oh, give them the stones. That's better than expected.]

It tells you how they evolve somewhere, doesn't it?

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