[What the CDC did to them on Ajna was both cruel and unusual. Most of the time he'd find it vindicating to hear that the people who had been killed had managed to steal something back, as small as it was. But they were stealing it from the wrong people.
He runs the conversation over again in his head. It was ages ago, but it had stuck with him. All of Ajna did.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org ok
[It doesn't come off as much, in response to all that text. But honestly, he appreciates her being straight with him. It isn't often that people make sure he gets the whole story. Even if it's taken months.
By way of a "thanks", and in some of his own odd measure of reassurance—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org it won't happen again.
[The CDC can't keep ordering people to take their comrades out and expect it to fly. Blackmail or not, they won't stand for it. Not a second time.]
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He hadn't heard. (Mikasa, she hadn't—
had she?)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
hallucinating?
[As if to be sure he got it right. He has to guess around her quirk sometimes.]
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Yeah. I ended up hearing a8out it from another recruit 8efore it happened to me, so I don't think we were the only ones to go through it.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
I hallucin8ed a8out Noh-Varr for seventy-two str8 hours, Eren. Since I don't sleep I never got a 8r8k from it.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
When I met with you, I could see him! Sometimes just standing around and smiling. 8ut a lot of the things I experienced were his memories. Happy ones.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
It felt like a 8ig flashing sign in my face going "this is what you just ruined, you fuckup!"
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
I always wanted to tell you that was why I was acting so jumpy. I wasn't trying to get out of our conversation or anything like that.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
8ut it's hard to focus when your dead 8est friend is standing next to you and only you can see him.
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He runs the conversation over again in his head. It was ages ago, but it had stuck with him. All of Ajna did.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
ok
[It doesn't come off as much, in response to all that text. But honestly, he appreciates her being straight with him. It isn't often that people make sure he gets the whole story. Even if it's taken months.
By way of a "thanks", and in some of his own odd measure of reassurance—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
it won't happen again.
[The CDC can't keep ordering people to take their comrades out and expect it to fly. Blackmail or not, they won't stand for it. Not a second time.]