[There’s not much that Aubrey knows about Eren’s history with the Scouts, age aside. He’s never talked (or thought or remembered, to her awareness) ill of them. Levi’s thought, the falter of his resolve, is more of a surprise than the memory.]

[The fist, too.]

Mm. Definitely not. [It is a wonder the kicking didn’t do it.] We don’t get to sleep here much. And I think I saw his dream before, earlier, but then—

[Why did he change? Why did it become real? Even if that was Levi’s influence on him, on the scenery, why won’t Eren wake up?]

That’s another thing about this world. [A very begrudging addition. She tries, already suspecting futility, shaking his shoulder.] You really never know what it’ll do.