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[usurpers]

Did you see those bugs that night? The comet-flies.

[ . . . ]

They made me nervous.

[abandonware]

Yeah, I remember.

[............]

You're afraid of bugs?

[usurpers]

I eat them

[ ,, fuck ]

Fireflies taste like shit though

[ fuck, AGAIN ]

They made me feel like I liked you, a lot.

[abandonware]

You

[huh. Eating bugs...]

ok.

Got it. Magic bullshit. Seems like a lot of that kind of crap happens around here.

[usurpers]

Wish there was a better explanation beyond magic bullshit too, but it’s not my forte.

[abandonware]

It's fine.

[She adds:]

Can't really hold it against you when just being here makes strange shit happen to you.

[usurpers]

Has anything started, with you?

[abandonware]

There are some things that aren't different. I was already stronger than a human before I got here, and I could already see in the dark. Was told those are changes that happen with this... species.

But I didn't need to eat before I got here, now I do. I didn't need to sleep as much either. Both are pain in the ass things to have to do.

...

I lost most of my teeth, last month. They grew back in differently.

[usurpers]

I had that happen to me my first month here, too. They all fell out.

[ the teeth, ugh. he'll never forget the feeling. scales only came another month after, for the most part. ]

It's a lot of adapting. What kind of monster, do you know?

[abandonware]

As long as it doesn't happen again, I'll be fine.

Turnskin. Pod thinks some sort of animal humans called a "cat."

You're another sort of creature, aren't you?

[usurpers]

A dragon. They don't exist where I'm from, but they're like lizards. [ . . . ] With wings.

You've never seen a cat before?

[abandonware]

[Lizard... she frowns at this, because she's never seen one of those before, either, but nearby Pod provides some explanation — it has been studying extant creatures on this planet, knowing A2 was disinclined to do so herself, unless she found it personally useful.

To Eren's question:]

No. Not before I got here. They no longer exist on my planet.

Neither do lizards. There aren't many animals.

[usurpers]

What happened to them?

[abandonware]

Tidelocked planet. Constant war. Mass extinction. Take your pick. I don't know all the details. It wasn't important for us to know.

Birds started to come back recently. Fish too. There are boar and moose. That's all I've ever seen.

[usurpers]

I can imagine the rest. My world might as well be going in the same direction.

But it sounds like things are restarting.

[abandonware]

Maybe so. I haven't thought about it. There's nothing else there for me.

Do you think your world has a chance?

[usurpers]

[ he wonders, for a moment, if that just means she's dead or if her mission is complete. or both? the question could wait. ]

The world, no. My home, yes.

[abandonware]

There's a difference?

['Home' was such a nebulous term for her that it encompassed the whole of the planet earth, not just a piece of it. She has never had anything akin to a familial unit, to camaraderie outside of the confines of a battlefield, and so most of the nuance is lost to her. ]

[usurpers]

There is for me. Most of the people outside my home aren't allies.