[That gets Lance to stare in dumbfounded silence. They haven't really talked much about Boa's past involvement with criminal organizations and between all of his flailing about Shortsuru, that'd been easy to gloss over and forget again. But the whiplash is effective. It gets Lance to shut up and properly attempt to process this through his other feelings about what he ought to do, how he ought to behave, and think about what others would want from him.

Just what the heck would his mom say about all this if she knew what he was contemplating? What about the rest of his family, blood or spiritual? He bites his lip and looks down at the ground.]

...it's not that I don't have anything to lose. It's just that there are some things that are worth risking your life or even dying for.

[But he looks back up to meet Boa's accusing look head on.]

If staying meant that I could disrupt their ability to bring people here as a guaranteed thing, that'd be an easy trade off to make. But these guys have been at this for a long time and they haven't been stopped by anyone on the inside yet. [Not by Shiro, not by Red.]

I guess it's nothing but arrogance to think I could do it.