[walkabout, audio] - a new voice appears

[neverfeltthatway]

Hello? Is this working? This is Armin, talking from over jauntside. Assuming you're all getting this, I've probably only got about 40 minutes. [He does, though it will end up being more like 5 hours for everyone on the walkabout, given the time differential. But then, that's one of the things he's here to ask about.]

This may seem like an odd question, but how long has it been, on your side of things? We're only at the start of the third day, here, but with the way liminal space is behaving, we're wondering if time is moving faster over here, like the Expo on the walkabout in Chikyuumaru.

Beyond that, where did you end up? Have you figured out if there's a purpose behind your presence there yet?

Let me know quickly if you have any questions for anyone jauntside, or if there's any help I can provide with my network abilities. If we're right about the time differential, this is the only time I'll be able to contact you before the end of the jaunt.

Comments

[retroactively perma-private; psychic protection ii]

[fearinahandfulof]

It varies, but even the weakest yoma is stronger than a human, and an Abyssal One is far, far stronger than they are. And humans can't detect them unless they reveal themselves. That's why my kind were created.

[She considers for a moment.]

They could be if they wanted, I think, and some have wiped out entire settlements. I can think of one who ate her way through several villages in rapid succession and only stopped when challenged by an Abyssal One.

[Namely, Priscilla. Who had promptly defeated the Abyssal in question - Isley - and won his fealty. If she hadn't mentally regressed to her childhood right then, there'd be no telling what they could have done.]

I don't think most of them necessarily want to eliminate humanity entirely, though, if only because they'd lose their favored prey that way and have to eat each other, and anything with yoma flesh is known to taste terrible. The Destroyer is the only exception I can think of, but it was almost entirely mindless and acting on instinct - most yoma and Awakened Beings are at least as smart as a human. The most immediately dangerous are probably the newly Awakened, because that makes them ravenous.

[There's a short pause.]

There are... suspicions... about the Organization taking advantage of that. Villages who cross them tend to find themselves under attack shortly thereafter.

[neverfeltthatway]

I see. [That's fortunate, in a way, though that's not something Armin would say to her aloud.] ...Your organization sounds a lot like my government, back home.

There's some intelligence behind the titans and their attempts to eliminate humanity - it doesn't show on an individual scale with the titans. But there are titan shifters, people who can turn into incredibly powerful titans like the Colossal Titan. They're the ones who broke down the outer wall and lead the titans inside. But they come from outside the walls. We have yet to learn their secrets.

[fearinahandfulof]

[Truthfully, she'd understand his reasoning.

And then he compares his world's government to the Organization, and all she can say to that is:]

...I'm sorry.

[She wouldn't wish another Organization on anybody.]

Outside the walls?