"Frustrating," Shiro answers honestly, the tilt of his head shifting just minutely with a more focused curiosity. The man could simply be exceptionally easy going, but if this is Altair's Malik, which Shiro suspects it might be, that certainly isn't what Shiro had been lead to expect. The response was delivered with a familiarity that seems out of place.

"It feels like something I missed the opportunity to prepare for." As much as he'd despised the Galra prosthetic, it had been a part of him, and he hadn't planned for its absence, at least without a replacement. It's taken losing the damn thing to realize what an oversight that was on his part.