I could see Levi was struggling to stay above the trees. These trees must be taller than we thought. I asked Ymir how far we were before thinking too Levi. Ymir says it's right up here can you hold out for another minute? I thought to Levi and he gave me a nod. I looked forward and the lights we saw in the distance were dim, but a lot closer to us than before.

"Right here," Ymir said. I looked below us at one of the densest parts of the forest.

"It's too dense for the guards to patrol. There are a few guards around, but less than before and they aren't patrolling in groups." Ymir filled me in.

Levi moved some of the trees out of our way. I let him go down first before following behind him. My wrists ached slightly and I let out a sigh of relief. Looks like we landed just in time.

"They said they saw something that way towards the light. They saw a fence and some buildings."

Ymir said that and I instantly felt the urge to take off in that direction and see what it was. I took a deep breath. Eren calm down, keep a level head, do this right. I reminded myself.

"Let's go see what it is," I said, trying not to get my hopes up. It might not even be a correctional camp, it might just be a base, which would still be a game-changer in itself to find, however, it's not what we set out to look for... it's not what I set out to look for.

Stop it Eren get a hold of yourself. Even if it's not a camp even if it's just a base it will still be a good find it will still help us get ahead. I tried to convince myself but there was still a voice in the back of my head telling me but if it's a base then we can't rescue any people from it, unlike a camp.

I took a deep breath and pushed all my thoughts away as we got a direction of which way to go. We continued making our way to the light in the middle of the forest until Ymir had us stop.

By now the light was visible through the dense trees and we were in a safe spot away from where the guards were patrolling, at least for the moment. "There's a compound ahead of us with a lot of people in it."

"People?" I heard myself whisper, "guards or civilians?"

She stayed quiet for a moment before turning back around waiting for an answer. "Both," she finally said.

I felt my heart start to race. This was a camp. "We need to get as much information as possible on the inside do you think your spirits can do that?" I asked her.

"I need to recruit a few more helping hands, or in this case eyes and ears, but I should be able to."

"Ghost? Do you think you can take a look on the inside too?"

"How long do we have to get the information?"

"As long as you need," I said looking to Levi to make sure he agreed. He gave me a slight nod telling me that he did.

"Well I can stay invisible for about three hours, but I can only stay phased for thirty minutes, so" he turned to Ymir, "depending on how long you can use your power you might be by yourself later."

"How long can you hold the spirits?" I asked.

"It's more complicated than that," she rolled her eyes. "To keep spirits that aren't normally attached to me around takes energy, but since I'm using spirits tethered to you guys it takes less energy, however, it takes energy to let them rome farther away from their tethered hosts. It also takes some energy to keep in contact with them as well as having them interact with objects. They won't be interacting with very many objects, however, they will be popping between two places, us and the camp which is a lot farther than they would normally travel."

"So how long do you think you have until your powers start draining you," I asked, hoping for her to simplify it.

"I'm not sure maybe an hour, maybe less depending on how many spirits actually help us, but by the end of this I could be totally drained from this."

"Well let's try to get the information before your timers run out," I said to both Ymir and Armin.

"We'll get started on your say," Armin said and I nodded. We were just waiting for Ymir to gather some helping hands.

"Resilient Recoil," I need you to be our lookout. Eyes and ear on the guards around us and see if you can overhear any information from them can you do that?"

"Of course," he nodded.

"Escapist, do you think you can make two sets of portals."

"Sure, what did you have in mind."

"One set with one portal in front of us with the other side behind us and another set with one portal to our right and the other side on the left. It won't be a perfect cover but from certain angles, it will look like we aren't even here."

Erwin looked almost impressed with my plan. "I've never thought of using them that way,'' he mumbled before setting them up.

"Alright I have two more spirits volunteering to help," she said.

I felt a cold feeling on my cheek. Someone was touching me. "Mom?" I whispered feeling a sting in the back of my throat. I haven't heard from or felt her presence since Ymir talked to me about her on the field.

"She wants to help."

I just closed my eyes and touched my cheek, "thank you," I whispered before trying to regain my composure. Now wasn't a time to get emotional.

I watched Armin squirm before placing a hand on his shoulder, "is my grandpa here?" he asked Ymir.

She just gave him a nod and I watched Armin close his eyes bite his lip trying not to break down. "Thank you for helping," he said when he managed to get his voice back.

"That should be enough spirits," Ymir said before pulling out a notepad and paper and sitting on the ground. "Ready when you are," she said looking at me.

I looked at Armin and he gave me a nod. "Alright go for it,"

Berthold was able to gain some information from passing guards as they chatted with each other. Apparently, they were trying to figure out what to do with the camp now that the exiles that had almost found it, were running free. So far they didn't know what was happening but they had speculated there were going to be more guards brought in.

Levi wasn't able to hear much from where we were aside from when guards passed by. He mostly let us know there were guards around and to be careful with our noise levels.

After what I assume was thirty minutes Armin came back and let out a tired sigh, "I can't phase anymore. I nearly got stuck in the fence trying to phase out of there." he whispered, sitting down on the ground next to Ymir to help her fill out her notes more on what he learned.

A few minutes later the last of the spirits had come back just in time by the looks of it Ymir was looking absolutely exhausted. She looked like she might double over any minute. We waited for Ymir to finish getting the last of the notes down from each spirit. She was just finishing up when she froze up.

"Um, Orbit," Ymir said all the blood drained from her face when she looked up at me.

"What's wrong?" I saw Levi tense up from the corner of my eye. He must have read her thoughts.

"Ilsa Langnar," she mumbled. That was Ymir's old roommate before she switched with Christa. She was in a different class than us if I remember correctly.

"What about her?"

"Gabriel saw her in there."

I felt my blood run cold for a moment before everything rushed me at once my face felt hot and I felt pure rage run through my body. How dare they. Ilsa was a sweet girl whose only dream was to become a journalist. I felt my legs move towards the camp.

"Orbit what are you doing?" Levi asked, walking after me.

"I'm freeing them. Now. She doesn't deserve that. None of them do and I refuse to let them rot there for another second."

"We can't."

"We have to."

I felt his hand grab my arm, "Babe look at me," he said and I wanted nothing more than to shrug his arm off and keep on walking, but I felt my body still and my head turned towards him.

"We all want to rescue them, to rescue Ilsa, but we aren't prepared for it just yet."

"I don't care."

"Please, think about this rationally. We will come back with a bigger team. We aren't abandoning them, we are just making sure we are able to save them without getting ourselves captured in the process."

I wanted nothing more than to argue with him. I could see the camp. The fence was right there. We were at the very edge of the forest. We were so close to it we are right here we can take it now. I let out a frustrated sigh and closed my eyes. Biting back my emotions I told my team, "Fall back."

Levi patted my shoulder and I mentally cursed myself for letting my team see my outburst. "Escapist portal us back we're ready to go," I said and he opened a portal. We walked through and the first thing I saw was Pixis's face. Great, he's going to find out that I screwed up.