Eren's P.O.V.

The ride seemed to go on through the night, and still no word from Mike. I think all of us know now he's dead. All six of us sat in a cart pulled by two oxen on a dirt path toward destination unknown.

"Why is the priest coming with us?" I asked, eyeing the paranoid priest suspiciously. I don't trust him.

"He's agreed to come with us, and Nick and I have become great friends, haven't we?" Hanji placed a hand around the priest and he froze. "Plus he and his cult know why that titan was in Wall Sina. He's keeping a tight lip though."

"WHAT?!?" I yelled. Anger grew within me. "Our friend, Elise died because this idiot didn't speak up?!" Elise didn't have to go on that suicidal journey?!!

"Eren, please!" Hanji tried to calm me down. But I still simmered beneath. A precious human is gone from this Earth, all because of this man.

"I will plug the hole in Wall Rose. For Elise." I vowed to everyone around me. Mikasa hugged me tightly around the shoulders, and so did Armin. "And afterwards, I'll plug up Wall Maria and find out the truth in my basement." I couldn't help but clutch the brass key tightly in my fist.

"What was that technique Annie did? You know, where she turned her fingers and body into crystal?" Hanji asked, drool dribbling from her mouth as she thought of the brilliant specimen. I shrugged. I didn't know how to do it or even where to begin.

"I have no idea." Hanji looked up, expecting something. There, in the light of torches, was the Hermiah District on Wall Rose.

"This is as far as the priest and I can go." She informed Levi, who had been sitting next to her quietly.

"Then I'll leave everything to you. You are the impromptu squad picked especially by Erwin." Levi replied, also looking ahead at the gate. "Armin, keep making up those strategic plans with Hanji." Armin sat up straighter. That was, if only, the closest thing to a compliment from Levi he had ever gotten.

"Y-Yes sir!" Levi rolled his eyes. That's all he seems to do nowadays.

"Mikasa, your job is to protect Eren at any costs. And don't blunder again; control yourself." Mikasa's eyes became harder at the thought of messing up. She's always a perfect; I can't see her messing up anytime soon.

"It will not happen, sir." I honestly didn't understand how Levi reacts to things. I heard him just a day ago in Elise's music room, playing the piano. He seemed almost depressed she was gone. Did Elise ever feel like there was more to Levi and her...? I would never know. While escorting the priest though the streets of Hermiah, we noticed him stopping in surprise. Citizens, thousands, were filing out of the city. Children crying, and parents ushering others to the gate. It's horrible how these people had to leave their homes.

"OI, keep moving. I don't need you getting lost now; there shouldn't be paperwork in a simple job like this." Levi snapped.

"What is this..?" The priest asked in shock.

"What else do you expect? It's not going to be all daisies and sunshine. A wall has just fallen to the Titans." Levi sighed.

"Mommy.." A girl cried, her messy chestnut hair kept together by two braids. And dirt staining her pink, plain dress. I felt tears prick at my eyes. Mikasa held my hand and led me forward toward Hanji.

"Looks a lot different from the little story you heard in your corner of these walls, eh? These people have been anxious and scared for so long, it is frozen in their faces." I heard from afar, and the only person I could think of when Levi was speaking this was Logan and Elise, so many years ago at the fall of Wall Maria, with Logan and his beautiful sister limply in Levi's hands as they parted ways from the boat.

"Some have even come face to face with the Titans. In the end, all humans will go though this phase in their life. This, or death right on the spot." They entered a small military set up where Hanji spoke to me, but it was mostly babble about Titans.

"So," Hanji approached Levi and priest Nick, "have you decided to tell us what you know?" Everything was in an awkward silence; but only for a moment.

"I'm afraid you have not swayed me. And you will not make any of my followers talk either." Her replied firmly, and Hanji let out a groan of frustration. We almost had him!

"But I can direct you to a single person who has as many answers as my cult." He added.

"So taking the heat off you and your friends, are you?" Hanji sneered.

"Yes. years ago, a person had been dragged into a strife between her relatives, causing her to go into hiding under a different name. She may not know that she has all the answers, and she has the right to speak publicly with whatever secrets she herself knows." He explained. Who could that be? I would guess a noble in Wall Sina.

"I heard she joined the Scouting Regiment about two years ago, along with the Yin-Yang siblings." Wait- what? How?! Wouldn't we know?!?

"And her name is..."

The woman's name was carried on the wind as a summer chill blew on my neck; making the hairs stand on end.

"H-HER?! No way.." I couldn't believe it. Even Levi was a bit amazed by the way his eyes widened slightly. And that doesn't happen often. The only other time I've seen them go this wide is when....yeah.

"Go. Find her." The priest insisted. "She may even have the answers we ourselves only rumor about. But it is still up to her to tell what she knows. It was the only compromise I had left. My last resort." He sighed, wiping the sweat from the back of his neck. The cool breeze did help some, he admitted. So that means she's-

"If she's in the 104th cadets, that means she's on the frontlines right now." Hanji's face grew pale. Such a important person with valuable information on the front of attack. Took the words right out of my mouth, Hanji. "We need to hurry to the breached part of the wall!!" Hanji raced to her horse,Armin, Levi, Mikasa, and I on her heels. She stopped suddenly, and turned to the four.

"I don't know everyone's name yet." She said sheepishly. "who is she?"

"Oh COME ON!" I sighed loudly. "she's the most petite girl!"

"And she's always hanging around Ymir.." Armin added.

"Blonde." Mikasa mumbled from behind me.

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HA! Who do you think it is? I think it's totally Reiner. Seriously, he acts enough like a petite woman to be who they are talking about, right? *Sarcasm*

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