It feels like a dream, sometimes. Then it's hard not to wonder when you'll wake up, and how cruel it will feel to have dreamed of a place like this at all.
[ He's been there, Armin. The other boy is also right; Marco won't mention this to anyone else. ]
When I first arrived here... I knew I wouldn't be able to go back. I was already dead. But I thought, surely my friends that are here will go back eventually. I told Jean I was proud of what he'd done in the Survey Corps.
The more I learn about what happens in our future though, and the more I learn here... I don't want any of you to return, selfishly. It sounds cruel and painful, more than I ever thought it would be. I suppose that's cowardly of me to admit but it's the truth.
Other things, too. Did you know in most other worlds, they don't let people become soldiers until they are at least eighteen?
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[ He's been there, Armin. The other boy is also right; Marco won't mention this to anyone else. ]
When I first arrived here... I knew I wouldn't be able to go back. I was already dead. But I thought, surely my friends that are here will go back eventually. I told Jean I was proud of what he'd done in the Survey Corps.
The more I learn about what happens in our future though, and the more I learn here... I don't want any of you to return, selfishly. It sounds cruel and painful, more than I ever thought it would be. I suppose that's cowardly of me to admit but it's the truth.
Other things, too. Did you know in most other worlds, they don't let people become soldiers until they are at least eighteen?
I didn't even make it to eighteen, Armin.