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Young Balor

To say that Balor was overall unimportant in the grand scheme of things would be untrue. He had a grand path ahead of him but the beginning of that path was still years away. Reading a very old poem from a far away place called Earth, so far away that it was well out of range of any Bridge, Balor sat quietly in the hall.

These names… Achilles, Agamemnon, Odysseus all the names of great heroes! But the name of Hector was one of a great villain. Balor cheered when noble Achilles dragged ignoble Hector's body behind his chariot!

Then the Bridge opened. Gard and Llud walked through with some prisoners. Two Alteans, Balor remembered the descriptions, and… Was it really possible?

"Are those… humans?" asked Balor.

"It would appear so." Replied Llud.

"Yes but there is something uncomfortably Galra-like about that red paladin." Stated Gard.

"I can hear you!" exclaimed Keith.

"I was not whispering!" returned Gard.

"Is the blue one an Achaean?" asked Balor.

"Achaean?" Lance was perplexed. He had no idea what an Achaean was but then again he was not as cultured as some. "I am a Mestizo Cuban!"

The term Mestizo Cuban meant absolutely nothing to Balor. In fact it meant absolutely to no Evabon. The fact that they had not been to Earth since the tenth century meant that some terms or phrases would mean absolutely nothing to them.

Balor simply turned to the yellow paladin and asked: "Are you an Achaean?"

"Actually I'm Hawaiin." Answered Hunk.

"You are descended from Hawaiiloa?" asked Balor.

"Uh, sure, you can say that." Answered Hunk with a smile.

"That is amazing!" Balor had a big smile on his face upon hearing that. He had no idea was a "Meztyzokuban" was but he knew was a Hawaiian was.

"How do you know what an Achaean is?" asked Pidge.

"Grandfather has a human poem called the Iliad in his collection. I read it all the time!" answered Balor. "I love reading about Achilles, Agamemnon and Odysseus fighting the vile Trojans."

Initially, Pidge was disturbed at this. Then she realized that it must have had to do with cultural similarities. Bronze Age Greek culture would have been more identifiable to the Evabon.

"Have you ever been to Earth?" asked Shiro.

"Evabon have not been to earth in a thousand and fifty-one years. My grandfather was there!"

Gard looked away as some sad memories came to him. Allura noticed this and extended a hand to put in on his shoulder only for him to walk away.

"Wait a minute! A thousand and fifty-one years?" asked Hunk. "How old is your grandfather? How old is your big brother? How old are you?"

"My grandfather is three thousand, four hundred and fifty." Stated Balor.

"Ha! Me and Allura got him beat!" said Coran with a triumphant grin.

"We were in stasis, Coran, I think that may be cheating." Commented Allura.

"My big brother Llud is nine hundred years old!" continued Balor.

"B-But he looks eighteen!" Lance could not believe this. If his big brother was nine hundred then how old was this kid? "Please tell my you are eight…"

"I am four hundred." Replied Balor.

There was a moment of silence. The Alteans and humans were both shocked. Allura and Coran knew the Evabon were long lived they just never took their aging rate into consideration. It made Coran uncomfortable knowing that this boy was two hundred years younger than him while he was already fully grown.

"You are four hundred years old?" asked Pidge, finally breaking the silence. Gard had known the reason for the silence but Llud and Balor did not and so had silently wondered why they were so silent. "Then that means you were born when King James was ruling England, Ireland and Scotland."

"Was he anything like Agamemnon?" asked Balor.

"And your brother was born when Henry I was ruling England." Continued Pidge.

"Can I ask about the kings of that name that followed?" asked Balor.

"And your grandfather predates most modern nations! He was born when Thutmose III was ruling Egypt!"

"That name does not sound Arabic." Commented Balor.