"You shouldn't give up," Kubo said, nodding his agreement. "I thought my father was dead most of my life, but not only was he alive, we found each other even though he was so far away."

Briefly, anyway, and that story ended with so much less happiness than he wanted Pidge's to, but he didn't need to add those things.

"Can you tell me more about Voltron?" he grinned, self-effacing. "I don't exactly know what a robot is."