entranceway | 2nd Mission video/action

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2nd Mission video/action

[Armin often visits the shoreline, so it's not unusual at all to meet him here. He sits with his legs tucked up to his chest, boots off, waves lapping at his feet. Sometimes for hours.]

[Those who know him might notice one small difference however; his clothing. His uniform looked more or less the same, but he was missing his green cape, and the emblem on his jacket was not blue-and-white wings, but two crossed swords.]

[He looks to his communicator at his side. His eyes, normally so bright with intelligence and curiosity seem unsettlingly dead.]

No one had ever told me... Is it true that this is the ocean?

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Perhaps, some other time... You could tell me about your world.

[For now, he's far too melancholy to enjoy stories of a pirate's adventures. The ocean makes him think of painful promises unkept.]

Not much for stories, mate.

Really?

[He seems a little disappointed.]

I'm afraid very few have happy endings.

...That's true.

I suppose it's childish to find comfort in stories.

Stories tend to be half lies, half embellishment, and worth no time at all.

The truth is hard, though.

So's life.

It is.

...It was.

Is, was, that hardly matters.

[So strange. He's so blase about it all that he can't help but break into a twitchy smile.]

Not here, maybe. I'm still rather confused by it all.

Aren't we all, then?

I never expected to continue living after... dying.

[Especially coming from a world with no religious mythology to back up the notion of an afterlife.]