[Video, psychic bridged to the walkabout]

[neverfeltthatway]

This is Armin, attempting to reach the Travelers on walkabout from the jaunt in Harrogate.

What's going on over there? Where are you, and is everyone all right?

We're still working out what's going on over here. It's 123 years later than the last time we were here, the year 2020 - in many ways it seems like a modern earth so many Travelers are familiar with. We arrived during the funeral of a local beloved celebrity. There are a number of ghosts hanging around, and several Travelers are investigating or infiltrating as ghosts. We're investigating several leads as to the cause of this, as well as to the hints of eldritch dealings at work.

I can only keep this connection open for about half an hour. I may be able to contact you all again in a few days - but I have to use psychic bridge to speak with the investigators on the ghost side of things as well, so that's not a promise.

...Is Eren around? [Because, of course, that was second half of the motivation for making this connection - and for bringing Mikasa along.]

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[rustyhonesty]

[Jean can definitely sense how angry he is. Of course he'd be. That's the whole point of Jean saying things like that. Just as planned. That's all Jean can think of.

It hurts more than he'd imagined.]

[callyourname]

[ Mikasa stays silent in her so called corner to the end, a little surprised and sometimes shocked at everything that they are yelling at each other.

Geez, she is from a family where her parents never had a fight in front of her, it's still weird to hear people yelling at each other like that.

Once it is over-- and sure, she is surprised at how fast Armin closes it but then again, not really -- her first reaction is to pull Armin into a hug and kiss his cheek. No words, not yet. She will try to calm (them both) down first.]

[neverfeltthatway]

[Armin stays where he is when the connection closes - still and silent, staring off into space as if he were still speaking on the network. When Mikasa pulls him into a hug, she'll be able to tell he's actually shaking, and breathing unevenly.

After a long moment he closes his eyes - angry, helpless tears leaking out the sides - and eventually puts his arms around her in return. He doesn't say anything either, yet - trying to come to terms with how helpless he still is to protect his friends, after all this time.]

[callyourname]

[She doesn't even need to hug him to know that the shaking and breathing like that will be there. It's part of the big reasons why she hugs him so soon. She's here, at least, even if some others can't be...

And she'll just hold him tighter and tighter as moments go by. She can't really deny feeling helpess too, this place is most likely going to hurt a lot sounds like a huge understatement and she's nooooooot sure if there's anything she can do about it. Because really, she and Eren might both be the kind of reckless idiots who'd go try to set ghosts on fire or whatever, punch things that they shouldn't punch or try things they shouldn't even try. And usually that works, she's pretty sure it won't work against ghosts or insanity though. Aside from that one time, when she accidentally made Rogue knock itself out with a punch and they got Eren back in control of it after that but that also was not a ghost...

Uh, how does this comforting people thing go again? She pets his hair and rubs his back. ]