[Armin’s words surprise Aubrey, too, actually. “Don’t forget what I told you”… She hasn’t, but. Kind of has…? The thought they’re better off here—that wasn’t, and still isn’t, a lie.

[It’s a selfish prison, maybe. Fit for those who could swear they have nothing to go back to....]

[But Eren has friends. Very, evidently, much so. They’ve been apart for how long, and they’re having a back-and-forth like that? Reminds her of someone back h—Don’t think of that now.
[Anyway, it’d be amusing if not for the context.]

Armin, ah… [Even as Aubrey addresses him, she can’t look at him. Or Eren, for that matter; she pretends one of the reflections on the shelves is suddenly very interesting.] What… is that chance?

[It’s cautious, not quite optimism. She feels like she’s failed him.]