There are lakes and things like that in the countryside, but before I became a Scout, I'd never been.
This was the closest thing we had to a real body of water.
[He looks at Aubrey, tilting his head to the side just so, as if considering something.]
You know...the more I think about it, it must have been the ocean that drew me to this place. I had this book...
It was illegal. It had information about the world outside of the walls.
Nothing about Marley, or anything like that. Just...bodies of water, filled with salt, that stretch out so far in every direction that you can't see the other side. Fiery water that flows between rocks and bursts out of mountains. Green lights in the sky that look like magic...
[Briefly, he bends forward to kiss Eren on his temple.]
Eren took me to all of those places. When we were talking just before he died. That reality he made...for me.
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There are lakes and things like that in the countryside, but before I became a Scout, I'd never been.
This was the closest thing we had to a real body of water.
[He looks at Aubrey, tilting his head to the side just so, as if considering something.]
You know...the more I think about it, it must have been the ocean that drew me to this place. I had this book...
It was illegal. It had information about the world outside of the walls.
Nothing about Marley, or anything like that. Just...bodies of water, filled with salt, that stretch out so far in every direction that you can't see the other side. Fiery water that flows between rocks and bursts out of mountains. Green lights in the sky that look like magic...
[Briefly, he bends forward to kiss Eren on his temple.]
Eren took me to all of those places. When we were talking just before he died. That reality he made...for me.