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Don't all go stuffin' your damn faces all at once. Not now and not when the jaunt's actually over, either. Two weeks in starvation mode's plenty of time to get used to it - you'll just throw it all back up.

[Shinji wishes he wasn't speaking from experience.]

Got some soup on.

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Do you have this ability too? You sound like you know what it's like.

Nah, just Greece bullshit.

Greece bull-? Oh, right. That. Does that, uh, make you not have to breathe either? Because that's the part that's really getting to me.

...Ain't been in any hurry to test that. Don't think I'd rule it out, though.

At least it's something easy to test by holding your breath. ...Shit, I think I'm going to have to test this as a Titan too.

And if it doesn't work, I don't wanna spend time in the Floor. [Honestly, he has enough death-shaped trauma from home, and he doesn't want to lose that kind of time on a jaunt.

Especially not this jaunt.]

Don't see why it wouldn't work as both.

Huh? Why would you end up in the Floor? You just hold your breath for a while and see if it starts getting difficult to keep doing it. That's what I just did.

[Which is why there was a ten minute delay before Eren first responded.]

The Titans are weird. It's only a partial transformation. Thorne called it a 'flesh mecha?' It probably still works but I don't want to count on that only to realize my Titan body still needs to breathe.

Fair. [So maybe he overthought it. Whatever.]

What kinda bullshit was your world pulling to come up with that?

[That in no way means Shinji thinks it's Eren's fault he got mixed up in it. Having seen where that kind of experimentation can end up himself - and knowing how lucky he was not to've been snapped up for the Strega project - he knows better.]

Fuck if I know. We only have records going back 100 years, and half of that's probably made up by the government anyway. The royal family's Titan had the power to alter peoples' memories. Four months before I ended up in Liminal Space we didn't even know Titans were humans.

Assholes.

At least we've been reclaiming what's been taken from us. The old government isn't in power anymore. The current queen is a good friend, and it's really the military running things behind the scenes.

Good. Hope it works.

[Mitsuru's family has a lot of clout, but never ruling authority. Given how awful her grandfather turned out to be, that's a good thing.]

I hope so too. We came a long way in those four months, but we still have a long way to go. The place we all thought would hold the answers ended up being a ruin, and I don't know what we're going to do now.

Probably gonna have to make your own answers.

Yeah. I'm just glad I have people to help me make them. Armin and Mx. Hange are better at figuring things out than I'll ever be.

Sounds fucking exhausting, honestly.

[Which doesn't mean it sounds not worth doing. It just means Shinji's glad he doesn't have to.]

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