2nd Mission video/action

[strategisch]

[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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[justguidelines]

Is, was, that hardly matters.

[strategisch]

[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.

[justguidelines]

Aren't we all, then?

[strategisch]

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.]

[justguidelines]

Who says we're dead in the first place, mate.

[strategisch]

That's just too confusing.

[justguidelines]

Why.

[strategisch]

We burn corpses. I should be nothing but a pile of ash.

[justguidelines]

Should be and are be two very different things. I suggest you get used to it.

[strategisch]

I... Guess...?

[I'm sorry his brain runs like a TI-84]

[justguidelines]

[Yeah, he's noticed.]

What you're supposed to be ain't what you are. Fact is fact, and that is fact.

[strategisch]

But that... Doesn't explain...

Or is what you're saying that I shouldn't be searching for explanations?

[justguidelines]

What I'm saying is perhaps you're looking for the wrong ones.

[strategisch]

I still don't know what those are...

[justguidelines]

Well, you can't expect someone to hold your hand and rub your nose in it. Figure it out.

[strategisch]

No, I suppose not...

But thank you anyways. For the... idea.

[justguidelines]

Well, better than getting a laugh out of you wasting your time.