Today was quite an odd day. Normally we just spend the days watching sparring matches, getting briefed for missions, or hang out in our rooms all day. "So how did you think today went?" I asked Hitch as we wandered around the building aimlessly. Normally we would just hang out in the common area or the rooms, but I wanted to walk around and stretch my legs.

"I think it went okay, no one got seriously injured so that's always a good thing," she shrugged. "What about you Marlowe, how did you think things went?"

"I think they went fine, but I've also never seen Levi break down like that. I didn't think he was the type to break down," I remember earlier when they ushered us out of the room.

"Well, not everyone can be strong all the time. Besides you're telling me you wouldn't be conflicted if someone told you to hurt me?" She asked, folding her arms.

"I mean of course I would, but-." I froze as we walked past the wall closest to the street.

"But what?" She asked.

"Shhh," I put my finger up to my lips before turning back to look at the wall. Somethings wrong. Something's very wrong. "We need to go now!" I said grabbing her hand and pulling her until we were both running. I ran straight to where Pixis was usually at rather than hunting down Nanaba. The whole time Hitch was asking me what was wrong and why we were running. I didn't have time to stop and explain it to her. I need to alert them as fast as I can.

We made it to Pixis's office and saw Pixis, Shadis, and Nanaba discussing something. We didn't have time for formal greetings. "Somethings wrong!" I yelled getting all of their attention. "We need to hide everything."

"Why what's happening?" Nanaba asked.

"I saw people's heat signatures outside lining up like they were getting ready to raid.

"Shit," Pixis said standing up. "I'll find Erwin, in the meantime warn as many people as you can to get started," he said running out of the room.

It took only around 15 seconds for portals to appear in every room and Pixis's voice rang out. "People have found the base, this is not a drill. I repeat this is not a drill."

I woke up hearing Pixis's voice right next to me. "People have found the base, this is not a drill. I repeat this is not a drill." I quickly jumped up looking to make sure Eren was up and hear the message. He gave me a nod and we got straight to work. I found Petra and we started knocking down the walls and moving the particles to where the wall would go. I felt like I was moving a lot slower and I realized I was. I never thought about how only being able to use one arm would impact drills and in this case real emergencies.

My adrenaline started pumping when I realized this was taking longer than normal even though our normal times was cutting it close. If we get caught because of me I would never be able to forgive myself. Right as we finished everything everyone was already in place with all the stuff moved. We quickly put the wall up just as we heard footsteps coming in. I silently prayed we solidified the wall in time, but I couldn't tell.

I couldn't hear the people's thoughts through the wall, the only thing I could do was close my eyes and focus on Marlowe's thoughts as he looked at the heat signatures moving behind the wall.

Thomas silently connected Pixis, Shadis, Nanaba, and Marlowe so he could keep them filed in on their positions too. The silence was deafening as we tried to hear what they were saying through the wall. It was mostly inaudible mumbling, but every once in a while a sentence or a word would slip through when they raised their voice.

One person was talking and I was able to piece together what he was saying by just a few words I managed to hear. "Reports, cursed, here, waste, time."

So someone reported us being here but they think it was a whole waste of time. If that's the case then they should leave fairly quickly right?

"Abandoned for decades," I heard a piece of another sentence.

"Perfect hiding place for cursed... may return." My heart sank at those words. That would mean they are planning on staying for a lot longer.

"No chance, too close to town," another voice spoke up.

"Waste of time," I heard again.

It was hard to know if they were planning on staying or not. Most of them seemed convinced this was a waste of time, but others aren't so sure.

"It was probably just homeless people passing through," someone yelled getting more frustrated, "this report was an old one and all it said was a group of people walked in here over a month ago."

What group are they talking about? We never use the doors, we are careful we always teleport in and out whenever we need to leave. Over a month ago when a group of us came in. What could they be referring to?

This is all our fault. I heard Nanaba's thoughts and it all clicked. That's right they did come in through the entrance, and it was during the daytime. I'm just surprised it took them a month to investigate, but then again it doesn't sound like they believed the claim in the first place.

Pixis was trying to convince her that it wasn't their fault while I was still trying to figure out what the people were saying. After a while, most of us just sat down and got comfortable realizing that they might be here a while. I'm just hoping we don't have to move because of this. It would be a pin finding another building and moving all of the supplies. Not to mention rebuilding everything.

After over an hour had passed I started hearing Thomas's thoughts panic more and more. He was worried he would go past his limit with having those four connected. Apparently, he could only hold the connection for an hour and thirty minutes, and that timer was quickly ticking down. I'm sure the people will be here longer than 15 minutes, which was how much longer he could hold their connection. He kept thinking about how he has to push himself to hold the connection for longer.

I decided to stop his stress and got up quietly walking over to him and whispering, "I can keep them filled in whenever you need to end your power, don't push yourself. Backlash is the last thing we need to deal with right now."

"Really?" He whispered.

"Yeah just give me a look and I'll handle it," I said patting him on the shoulder before going to sit where Pixis, Shadis, and Nanaba were. Eren scooted over and sat with me. When Thomas gave me the nod I updated them quietly on what Marlowe was seeing. Marlowe was sitting dead center so he could see better whereas we were sitting off to the side. All of us moving would make too much noise so it was easier for me to just whisper and fill them in.

They took their sweet time walking around checking every little detail. "There's so much dust here that I'm sure no one's been living here. Besides if there were people here recently we would have seen their footprints in the dust and dirt on the ground, but all I'm seeing is our own. This whole thing has been a huge waste of our time. I told you it was probably a false report," Some guy was really angrily yelling. He seemed to be annoyed with how long they were staying too.

"Well if we would have checked it out sooner we may have found something, but it took us over a month to investigate so of course there's no one here now," another person yelled back.

"It was probably nothing, to begin with. Do you know how many homeless people are wandering around nowadays, it was probably just some squatters trying to get out of the sun for a little while."

"Do you know how many of those homeless are cursed? Most of them are dangerous blue badges! How are you going to tell me without the slightest bit of doubt that none of them were probably dangerous cursed? For all, we know one of them could have been an exile?"

"An exile? Now I know you're delusional, no exile would be spotted this close to town!"

"Would both of you shut the hell up! You're making my ears bleed with all your bitching. Even if there was something here a month ago there's nothing now, and hasn't been for a while. This whole thing was a waste of my time." A new voice yelled breaking up the argument. He didn't seem too thrilled to be here either. This man sounded a lot older than the other two maybe he was a higher rank? He has to be because once he spoke up the two that were arguing went dead silent.

It didn't take long after that for them to clear out of here. Even after they left Pixis had a hold for another hour just to make sure they weren't coming back. After the hour had passed he had Armin go out and check to make sure everyone was really gone. When Armin came back and gave Pixis the all-clear he finally let us out.

I looked around at the floor to see what dirt and dust it was they were talking about since we tried to keep this place fairly clean. It was the particles sitting on the floor from where Petra's power had taken down the walls. That's right her power did make that stuff look like dust. Her power saved our asses in more ways than we even realized.

Before we were able to put anything back Pixis had us all come closer and gather around him so he could address us all. "We were lucky today, we only saw them coming because of Marlowe. We have gotten too comfortable here and weren't expecting a threat to come right in. we need to start being more prepared."

"What do you suggest we do?" Reiner asked from behind me.

"We need to start having lookouts. At least two at all times. We will switch off in shifts. Shadis and I will take the first shift tonight." he said volunteering themselves. Shadis seemed to be in agreement as he nodded along to the idea. "We can figure out other groups later and when the pairs need to switch off, but right now we need to address a few more things," he said taking a deep breath.

"Did you hear them? I don't think they're coming back," Connie said a little confused.

"It doesn't matter. We can't change it. The only reason we survived today was because of pure luck that Marlowe saw them when he did. Next time we might not be so lucky. From now on every time we come or go whether it be for supply runs or for missions we will have to move everything and patch everything up because if we don't and people come while we are away we will get caught because in an emergency we wouldn't have enough people to hide everything."

Eren's thoughts were going so fast. He was scared, as was I. Pixis was right. We only survived today because of dumb luck. Both Eren and I were asleep if we were raided without warning we would have definitely been captured... or worse. It makes me uneasy knowing that those people know where we live. Even if they don't know we live here. This place was home. It was always a safe spot for us; we've never had people raid us before. I mean I always knew it could happen, but now that it has it makes me feel like nowhere is safe. The only thing that was standing between us and several men with guns was a thin wall that was barely put up on time.

Pixis dismissed us and before we got to work putting everything back I heard Mom and Molbit offer to take the first shift while everyone was putting stuff back. They told Pixis and Shadis that they could relieve them later tonight. It made me even more uneasy knowing that if there was another raid tonight that mom and Molbit were the first two in danger. What if the next raid doesn't set up before storming in then what?

"Hey, it's okay baby," Eren said putting his hand on my shoulder, "I know we are both really freaked out about what just happened, but it's okay. Everything's okay now. Here let's sit down for a moment," he said and I couldn't tell why his thoughts were so worried until I realized that my whole body was trembling. I think it was all the anxiety and adrenaline trying to leave my body, it's so much worse cause it's not just my anxiety and adrenaline I'm feeling.

The second Eren got me to sit on the floor it was over so much exhaustion hit me that I could barely keep my eyes open. There were so many emotions flowing through me and then all of a sudden nothing. I was so overwhelmed with emotions that I no longer felt anything but my consciousness fading as my eyes shut. Before they did I could barely make out Eren as well as Levi and Pixis standing over me. They were trying to talk to me, but I couldn't make out anything as my whole world went black.