[Ahah. This was also a question he really could answer accurately; most of his arena days were an indistinguishable slurry. But he already finds himself off-balance from the sympathy in Darc's face. It was hard enough for Shiro to wrap his own mind around that year with the Galra. He couldn't ask any of the other Paladins to understand it. Yet Darc seemed to know without even being told.]

Around a year ago, [He hazards, and, trying to push the subject toward the less personal:] Is that why you said I'm not like other human warriors? Because of this 'magic'?