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I told you before, they can live outside the walls here...[Still a great testament to how safe it was. That people could live out there and travel pretty freely when the scouts had been considered suicidal idiots for going out.]

Were...They were like this...[She sighs and that got from 0 to 100 on the depression scale very quickly.]

There's still time when we return. [ Thanks, Mikasa. He was doing a nice job pushing most of his worries about home away in favour of enjoying the respite Aefenglom offered them. ]

...[She might have been talking to someone else about that. How it felt like they had no time. Even if she'd spent more than six months here now, longer than the time it'd taken for their world to change all those years ago.

She wouldn't remember what she'd learnt here...]

Did it look better from the time you're from..? The walls had only just broken when I arrived...Maybe it looked worse to me then...

[If that meant much.]

The walls are gone. We took some time regrouping before deciding to go find Eren. I hadn't actually seen it -- the state of the other countries.

[ He doesn't know what they look like, but if Eren's crossed the seas, he can imagine the kind of devastation they would be in. It felt like the end of their world when the walls were breached those many years back and the titans got into their country. To the people of the other countries, it might actually be their end. ]

-- I wasted so much of our time. [ Deciding if he was for or against the cause. Doing as Floch says. He's realising now that every single minute they waited was one thousands of people would die for. They really don't have time after all. ]

[There's a pause there. It's a small hope, one that deep down she knows was useless. But couldn't dismiss.]

Didn't we all..? I should have said something when I noticed. [That he'd been crying. But then he'd thrown her off, then the party after... It had been so much unlike the rest of their lives that she thought it'd be alright.]

I guess it's a good job we can see this place...

You noticed ...? [ What Eren was apparently planning, the way his thoughts had shifted. Eren chose the option none of them even thought was an option, and Jean did not expect that he was capable of it. ]

When did you notice?

When..? [Time was on odd thing. Because now, it seemed so obvious that they'd missed it. Eren growing quieter, something she'd dismissed as him maturing.] I don't know... Before he left I found him crying.

I didn't notice anything that day. We all had a drink together.

[ There was laughing, shouting and glasses being clinked together. He even remembers getting way too up close and personal with other people than he normally would. It's one of the few times they've had fun on a survey mission. ]

It looked like he was enjoying himself too. [ So suddenly losing Eren came as a surprise to everyone. ]

[It gets a hum. But no elaboration, she wasn't going to mention the conversation they'd had before the old man had interrupted, before the others had come looking.]

Did he..? I remember laughing and hugging Armin... [And maybe an awkward huddle dance with him and Sasha where all parties had been too drunk to do much other than hug and stumble. And sleeping, she remembered curling up next to Eren. But she wasn't the best with booze so most of it was blur.]

I should get back to work...

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