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 Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:32 am
 [Wren Harbinger]
Wren's hand stopped, clutching the pencil tightly as the other girl finished speaking. "Wait a moment," she said, furrowing her brow. She remembered a boy with piercing blue eyes, a sharp face similar to Elin's. Robyn had introduced them once shortly before his passing. The boy had said she was pretty, she recalled. She thought hard to remember his face and quickly flipped to the next page, sketching it out as best as she could from memory.
She turned the notebook toward Elin, hoping that she may have captured her brother's image well enough to recognize. "Is this him? I swear I remember a boy that looked just like you, with eyes and hair like you said!" she suddenly found her heart racing at the thought that she may be able to help the fox-like girl in some way.
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:54 am
 Elin DeraWhat am I missing?
There was a spark--almost like the beginning of a fire--in her eyes. Amber orbs became slightly misty. "You have some serious talent. Yes, that's him." a little color came to her cheeks, seeing her brother not dying or as a ghost, haunting her. She touched the paper briefly, withdrawing her hand as if it had suddenly been bitten by the image. "My brother..." Elin swallowed hard, keeping down the numerous feelings in her chest, causing a bitter expression. A pale hand pressed to her face, and she took a breath.
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StaroftheBazaar Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:03 am
[Wren Harbinger]
Wren gnawed some dry skin on her lower lip and watched the girl carefully. "I recall Robyn saying once that they wanted to travel somewhere, their friends also," she mused, looking up at the darkening sky and trying to bribe her memory forward.
"I think," she tore the page out and handed it to the redhead, "that I may have one of Robyn's notebooks still. I could look through it and see if I can find any other mention of Alec." She said softly, reaching to rub the girls shoulder.
"Robyn was very fond of him," she replied, wavering slightly. She hoped she hadn't put an uncomfortable stress on the other girl.
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:26 pm
Elin DeraWhat am I missing?
"I'm sorry, everything from that time is just...foggy. I reach for a memory, and it slips through my fingers like water. It's been years since I've seen my brother, and I figured I'd never have any leads. Even to see him in a drawing like this is nice." Elin opted to let the dark-haired girl do what she wanted with her hands. If they weren't talking about these things, the young officer would've been quick to grip an unfamiliar hand painfully tight and let them have a piece of her mind.
She closed her eyes, shaking her head slightly. The scattered memories were like a far-off dream. Sharp yellow eyes opened again, looking out over all the structures. As the sky changed colors, she found herself somewhat hesitantly believing in Wren, hoping this was not just some dream woven for her benefit, to wake up from. Or worse, to be caught and lose what she'd built over the past several years.
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StaroftheBazaar Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:51 pm
[Wren Harbinger]
Something seemed very purposeful and real about meeting Elin there, perched atop the wall. As though Wren had joined the Survey Corps and gone for walks every night hoping for something like this to happen.
"I try to draw Robyn fairly often, so I don't forget what he looked like," she sighed. "If something is important to me, I draw it in this notebook to remind myself of it." She flipped through the worn pages, carefully eying each drawing. Her childhood bedroom, her mother and father, Robyn, each of the wall's gates, and several other drawings of her view from various vantage points she'd picked throughout the city.
"However, I can't say it helps much. I was too careless when I was younger, never paid any attention to my surroundings.." she wavered, mimicking Elin's surveying of the landscape. "I feel like there are a thousand pieces missing from my own image."
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 7:49 pm
Elin DeraWhat am I missing?
Bright eyes turned to Wren. The ginger raised a hand to go to her opposite shoulder where another already rested. It felt as if a connection was being established between them. This girl's brother knew her brother, and now she knew her. Could it really just be coincidental? Elin didn't believe in such things, but she was inclined to believe in the bond. "It's unwise to wander too much without some purpose or destination. That is, unless, it gets you where you want to be..."
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StaroftheBazaar Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 9:50 pm
[Wren Harbinger]
Wren smiled at the redhead's words and noted to write them down later if she remembered. She had always avoided thinking about why she desired to be somewhere else so badly, always wanting to be anywhere besides where she was.
Did she even want to know? She reached up to her neck, gripping the crystal dangling there tightly. "I think you're right about that, Elin." She spoke quietly, as though there were people around, which she was sure she'd only passed a few others on her walk there. "I think i'm looking for something as well."
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:17 pm
Elin DeraWhat am I missing?
Elin idly rubbed gentle circles in the back of Wren's hand with her thumb. She smiled softly, "Of course I'm right. Lieutenant's are supposed to be right." her smile broadened slightly, tone also quieter. It felt comforting, having someone with her, to talk to, for the first time. To really become linked with through conversations and little movements. "Maybe we can look together, Wren."
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StaroftheBazaar Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:36 pm
[Wren Harbinger]
An image came to Wren as she closed her eyes for a moment. Passing from the sunlight into the looming shadow of the wall for a brief moment, surrounded by her fellow soldiers, and bursting into the seemingly endless luminescence of the outside world. Chills spread over her skin and she blinked a few times to shake the image from her mind.
"Join the Survey Corps, Elin." She said, turning to face her companion with a serious expression. "There are answers outside the walls, I know there are. There has to be a reason I'm so drawn to them." She spoke out of sheer feeling now, words coming out quicker than she could think of them.
"I lose my mind a little more every day, staring up over the edge. Something out there knows what took your brother, and why we were ever locked away in these cages to fester and die like mine-" her voice began to crack. "Every day I listen to the men in the barracks talk about how they've lost hope in our commander, in escaping humanity's deadlock. The Scouting Legion needs people with your desire to search for an answer." She fell silent for a moment, and pulled her shaking hands up to her face to wipe away the tears that threatened to fall.
"Sorry, I.. lost myself a little there, it's not my place to ask that of you,"
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:15 pm
Elin DeraWhat am I missing?
". . ." Elin watched the young lady sorrowfully, not certain of what words to speak to her next. It made sense. Her brother died with them. Hundreds died with the Survey Corps. Asking her to join felt like asking her to die.
"Oi, listen," she took a breath. "I train nearly every day at the almost-abandoned grounds for the Military Police. I read to the point I'm asked to stop, seeing all the censored things that have been written. Secrets are sewn into these walls and people like you'd see from a talented seamstress. To find the answers...outside the walls. Someone like me could never be ready to see an actual titan. Even if I managed my way past the hate of all of your crew, it would be simply to be consumed almost immediately." the fox looked down, ashamed. "I'm just a sewer rat with no real power." it hurt her to say those things. But she supposed that it was what everyone said about her until she proved herself. Why prove herself, though?
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:35 pm
[Wren Harbinger]
The brunette lowered her gaze to her foot, hanging delicately against the side of the wall she'd grown up in the shadow of, and the familiar feeling of weightlessness overtook her for a moment. She sat in silence, musing over what Elin had said.
"People are starting to think the Scouts are a joke," she was quieter now than before. "Someone defaced one of the barracks a few weeks ago. 'Disband the feedstock,' they wrote." She swallowed hard, heart beginning to speed up. "Someone spit at my feet in the city on my way here today. My captain told me it would be best not to wear our emblem in public," she was scowling now, eyes still locked on the long drop below. "But when I look up at a titan, I feel about half as much anger and hatred as I do when I'm faced with how people treat one another. I.. have found it impossible to relate to anyone outside of my squad.. until I happened upon you here today, Elin."
Her olive eyes lifted to the horizon, now saturated with orange and pink with the setting sun. "If I'm to die at the hand of a titan," she sighed. "Then I suppose that's where my wandering has taken me. I respect your decision. However," she turned to face the girl. "No one, from the underground or not, is vermin in comparison to those who have no hope."
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:08 pm
Elin DeraWhat am I missing?
Elin looked up to Wren, hair glowing like a burning fire with the colors of the setting sun. Some people were just terrible human beings who deserved to die. And somewhere in her underground days, they certainly would get painful reminders that she was on top, in spite of looking like just a little girl to them. But now she was full-grown. Still shorter, but her features were sharp and lean, unlike their particularly underweight appearance in previous years. It was hard, watching her commander delight in sweets. It was difficult seeing the men and women inside wall Sina lounge about as if they were sloths.
Now it was her time to speak out of turn. "From the moment we're born, we are free. I'd forgotten that until I met you. So...I will fight for my freedom. No, our freedom, and the freedom. I'm sick of using my strength to throw around drunk soldiers, anyways." she added, lightening the mood with her sense of cockiness.
Mood Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ayxbAstsTI
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:31 pm
[Wren Harbinger]
Wren couldn't help feeling like a giddy child in that moment, having made a real friend for the first time it seemed. Her throat felt thick and she was afraid she might cry out of sheer overwhelming happiness.
"I don't.." it was too late to stop the tears now, she was too worked up. "I don't know how to thank you, Elin. The only way I know how is to promise to protect you to the best of my abilities." The thin woman swallowed the lump in her throat and reached to wipe the tears from her cheeks. 'I haven't cried in ages,' she thought. 'Not since Robyn..'
Pulling herself together by sheer will, as she had become rather accustomed to in her days with the Survey Corps, she stood up, careful not to strain her ankles. "Well, it's gonna be night time soon," she said, looking down at her sitting friend. Her near crimson hair was alight with the sun's reflection and she looked so.. well, beautiful. In the sense an artist would think, anyway. "I'd rather not walk two miles in the dark," she mused, feeling the throbbing in her ankles just thinking about the journey back.
Wren often felt boyish in the presence of other women, especially those well-fed enough to have a figure. She was scrawny, to put it lightly. Never had it bothered her much, however, especially when it came to fighting. She was light, and that was all it took to become exceptionally good at dodging attacks. She felt rather mighty, in fact, standing over grown men twice her size, having thrown themselves at her only to land face first in the dirt.
"We can train together, if you want." she said, offering the girl a hand to help her up. "I can't promise other soldiers will be so understanding with a former MP," she said somewhat grimly.
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:44 pm
Elin DeraWhat am I missing?
She felt incredibly moved by this girl. But it didn't entirely show for her. This would be the day she'd waited for. This'd be the day she could open up the door. Elin clasped Wren's hand with a firm grip, seeming to get up without any effort. There was only one option now, and that was to forge ahead. She wouldn't be scurrying in any other direction, and she knew every tactic to keep them from being separated in barracks and teams. Elin was very clever, and now she'd be outwitting people with actual brains. Teaching them respect. "Be more worried for them." Yellow eyes looked up into hazel ones.
"The last time, for example, a trainee offered me their hand...they're back hit the dirt. Took them over a minute to figure out how we swapped places." she smirked. Usually, there'd be the corruption of the Military Police was what she'd be used to. But it sounded like the Corps was starting to rot in its own way. Little did she know what a victory she could and would bring to the walls, if she worked well and kept sharp.
Mood's Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtMXnr293zU
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:47 pm
[Wren Harbinger]
Wren laughed a more honest laugh than she had heard from herself in a long time, and something about the tone in Elin's voice made her comfortable. She spoke on a whim, but hoped the girl would humor her a little further.
"You remind me of Robyn," she said, eyes somewhat squinted with her smile. "He always had a lot of spirit." It seemed nearly uncanny to Wren now. Being with Elin reminded her of her childhood. Ambitious and enthralled with hope. "If your brother was anything like you, I can see why they would've been drawn to each other."
She hoped she wasn't imposing too much on her new friend. She had been pouring out personal things to her with no real regard to whether or not the other cared to bear her burdens. Elin seemed more genuine than that though, eyes alive and concentrated. Perhaps it was just Wren's overly trusting nature.
"Well, I guess we could get better acquainted with one another over a drink," she laughed softly. "Play twenty questions an' all that," she paused, surprised by the slip of dialect she'd had. She'd had a pretty strong accent from living in the outer city before, but it'd faded as she grew up. Oh yes, she felt very much like herself around this girl.
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