I-I know, but... Before... [Another breath to try and center herself.] I know you grew up without this... but one of the most important duties of the royal family of Altea has always been to protect our people. Our home. We might have been able to protect Voltron... but you...

[They failed their planet. They failed Romelle and all the Alteans that came before her. She failed them. She knew logically there wasn't enough time to evacuate, that Zarkon's military was stronger, that even if things had turned out differently... the other reality proved how wrong it might have gone. But in her heart, it's an anguish as deep and heavy as a commander mourning a soldier in their charge, a parent seeing their child hurt, multiplied by millions of lives and thousands of years.]