[You knew what you were getting into when you messaged him, Ino. (Does murdering kidnappers count as special...) He's gotten a lot of people asking him about Mikasa, lately, but he hasn't gotten any better at talking about her. Or himself, for that matter.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org I guess.
[Helpful. Shiganshina was very dull, until it was gone. He'd considered it a cage, when he was young. Railed against the walls and dreamed of getting out. That does not mean he does not mourn it. So, before she can be exasperated by that non-answer—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org we'd hang around the fields or the canals. sometimes we'd get to see the Corps come through the gate on expeditions.
[Heading out straight-backed and purposeful. Coming home bloody and quiet, with hollow eyes and fewer numbers.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
usually it was just me and her. and Armin.
[Because none of them were really all that good at making friends, otherwise. (She woke him up and helped him finish his chores when he fucked off to nap in fields. Let him drag her off to watch the Corps come by. Bailed him out of a lot of fistfights. Watched quietly as Armin spun heretic stories about the world outside the walls.)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org she only lived with us a year before the wall fell
[And that's about when they stopped being children and started being refugees. And then soldiers, two years after that.]
no subject
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
I guess.
[Helpful. Shiganshina was very dull, until it was gone. He'd considered it a cage, when he was young. Railed against the walls and dreamed of getting out. That does not mean he does not mourn it. So, before she can be exasperated by that non-answer—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
we'd hang around the fields or the canals. sometimes we'd get to see the Corps come through the gate on expeditions.
[Heading out straight-backed and purposeful. Coming home bloody and quiet, with hollow eyes and fewer numbers.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
usually it was just me and her. and Armin.
[Because none of them were really all that good at making friends, otherwise. (She woke him up and helped him finish his chores when he fucked off to nap in fields. Let him drag her off to watch the Corps come by. Bailed him out of a lot of fistfights. Watched quietly as Armin spun heretic stories about the world outside the walls.)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
she only lived with us a year before the wall fell
[And that's about when they stopped being children and started being refugees. And then soldiers, two years after that.]