I wanted a little more angst from Lance's POV at the party, so I looked up the photo of his family (the one he's thinking of during the mind melding training) and wrote this terribly depressing tidbit...
"I miss… my mom's hugs…" Lance felt the agonizing cold creep through his suit and send shivers down his spine as he reminded himself of the lack of familial warmth on the castle. He'd been hiding his homesickness so well that he almost believed himself until the others brought it up.
Lance left the party quickly, not wanting to celebrate when all he could think of was his family back home. Images of his immediate family ran through his head. His mother, sister, brother, they'd lost their dad only a few years ago, what did they think happened to him?
He didn't want to admit that tears poured down his face as he found himself on the bridge.
He could imagine now, the whole family gathered together trying to accept the loss, all eleven of them.
Slowly, Lance tried to think of happy memories. Goofing around, teasing his siblings Carlos and Madison. Listening to Mama sing as she cooked and danced around the kitchen.
Family parties for birthdays, anything that could make the blue paladin laugh somehow turned into their faces of fear and sorrow.
"Just like losing dad," Lance croaked softly to himself as he tried to wipe the tears from his face.
Coran came in soon after, and the cheery blue paladin played off his sorrows well before everything exploded.