"That's true. I could never share what I knew with our squad... I'd get arrested if they told anyone."

Thinking about their reactions made him smile warmly. They may not have been as interested in the outside world as he and Eren were, but it was impossible to look at this sight and feel nothing. It made him feel small-- not in the frightening way that Titans did, but in a good way, like he was a tiny piece of something vast and complicated waiting to be discovered.

"Connie and Sasha would go ballistic. But Jean would still manage to be a curmudgeon."