vld veteran

Thinking about that one scene where Lance tries to tell Veronica he doesn't want her on a mission with him bc he wants her to stay safe. The boy who got described as the baby of the family is telling his older sister (age difference widened by the 3 years that passed for everyone but the paladins) that SHE should stay behind because it's too unsafe.

To add, Veronica looking at her baby brother and seeing eyes desensitized to the violence of war because he’s seen what war can do, experienced it first hand. And she knows, sudden and awful but certain, that he’s gone through too much, but also that despite her desperate need to shake him out of that battle worn armor and hide him away, he needs to be there. If they want to win, he needs to be there — out in the thick of it, the worst of the fighting.