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[leftbehindagain]

Hello and welcome to another exciting session of What Terrible Crap Were We All Exposed To On The Last Jaunt. Fortunately, this one's not quite as urgent as space was.

It occurred to me that the Romans were pretty fond of lead, so those of us who were there have probably been exposed to more of it than usual over the last month. Lead's... really not so great for the human body. This time I'm leaving the antidote up to individual discretion, but there's some in the workshop and some in Kanji's place.

[private to Zoe]

I know I just said it's up to personal choice, Zoe-san, and you'd probably do this anyway, but I definitely recommend you get some of this for the baby, at least. Lead's especially rough on kids and I don't want to see her get sick.

I did what I could, but it still tastes pretty terrible. You might have a hard time getting her to finish it.

Comments

[rustyhonesty]

It never hurts to be careful. Thank you for providing us with the antidote.

How have you been otherwise, since the Jaunt?

[leftbehindagain]

You're welcome.

Not too bad. That was an odd one. The influx of extra people again's been... interesting.

[rustyhonesty]

Yeah, a holiday kind of a Jaunt. That's a first I've heard of.

Really? Did more people from your home come over?

[leftbehindagain]

A few, as much as any two people are ever from the same Inaba these days. Something of a mixed bag.

[rustyhonesty]

Oh right, you had your own problems with timeline things, huh?

There are some from our world as well, not counting that extra Eren I found.

private, guess who has Protection 2

[leftbehindagain]

I'm not entirely sure the world needs two of them. I did see you made up with your friend, at least.

...My sister turned up at Hanamura's party.

private, /h5 here too

[rustyhonesty]

... yeah. It's mostly thanks to Mikasa. That and he did try to be friendly with Eli, so it made me feel more comfortable.

[He's still embarrassed about being a potato sack, so he shall not mention that.

Jean remembers what Eli remembers about Attius' family. About the sister who had passed away. Of course, infiltrators necessary didn't share their family history... but with Jean also having a matching family, it was possible.]

How do you feel about that?

really most sincerely private, then.

[leftbehindagain]

Good. I'm glad you got that figured out before it could get worse. [Good show on their mutual friend's part.

Naoki sighs.] She isn't from the same timeline, but by now I was half expecting that. It... it's been over two years, it was good to see her again.

[rustyhonesty]

Yeah, I'm glad as well.

[Before, it would have been hard to admit that he actually valued the thought of friendship between them. It was still embarrassing though.]

Even if she's from another version, she's still her, right?

[leftbehindagain]

Been a while since anyone tried stealing my cream puffs.

[rustyhonesty]

Sounds like you two have an interesting sibling relationship.

What is a cream puff though? It sounds like a food.

[leftbehindagain]

She's two years older than me. She was... we were predisposed to get on each other's nerves. [Too bad this is locked down so well, or Satonaka could learn some interesting things about how Naoki interacts with her.]

It is - it's a kind of dessert. Whipped cream in a pastry shell.

[rustyhonesty]

Well, it'd be boring to get along all of the time, right? Besides, in the end you both still care.

[Hey, he's at least learned that after realizing he is friends with a certain titan shifter.]

Sounds good.

[leftbehindagain]

Yeah. I... it was months before it really sank in that she wasn't coming back. For a long time I felt like I was doing something wrong. [And Jean can probably guess some of what Naoki's Shadow had to say, from that.]

They are. I like them a lot. She'd always steal them before I got a chance to eat any, though. 'Oh, they were going to go bad, I didn't want that to happen, I'll pay you back.'