"Well, eventually it's more of, like, a goatee," she says, tracing a little circle around the lower half of her own face, more just idly talking as she thinks. She's thinking so much about the year he's from - 850 - that she doesn't even think to mention to him, by the way, he's not dead. He didn't succumb to the curse of Ymir, because it doesn't exist anymore. She's instead thinking about what point in time he's from and how it's...around where Jean and Mikasa are from, she's pretty sure, minus the time they had apparently spent in other strange places like Nightwake. It's...not the best. She remembers Jean threateningly talking about flowers (even if she's not sure what it means) when the subject of Reiner came up...and if Reiner hasn't left Paradis yet....they're all still going to consider each other enemies.
Gabi's eyes fall a bit, breaking eye contact with Reiner. She's...gonna have to be very careful how she deals with all of this. She can't just dump everything on Reiner at once. If she tells him about the alliance, he'll no doubt ask why they aligned with each other. If she tells him about the Rumbling and the destruction of Liberio, he might go try to kill Eren the second they're through that portal. Her own extremely complicated feelings on Eren aside, she can't let this turn into some kind of micro-repeat of the awful war they all fought against each other. She doesn't want Nightwake to get swept up in that.
She refuses to let Levi or Reiner get swept up in that. They both matter to her too much. They've both been through enough.
So...extremely careful, it is. Just...be really, really careful about how she reveals everything, both in terms of their future and the situation in Nightwake, where so many of her friends and his enemies currently are.
Her head twitches a little as she feels his hand touch her head. That and his words break her train of thought briefly.
"Aheheheh!" She giggles. "Yup! I'm getting pretty big, huh?" Then with a bit of a mischievous tone, she adds "Levi says I'm sprouting up like a weed!"
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Gabi's eyes fall a bit, breaking eye contact with Reiner. She's...gonna have to be very careful how she deals with all of this. She can't just dump everything on Reiner at once. If she tells him about the alliance, he'll no doubt ask why they aligned with each other. If she tells him about the Rumbling and the destruction of Liberio, he might go try to kill Eren the second they're through that portal. Her own extremely complicated feelings on Eren aside, she can't let this turn into some kind of micro-repeat of the awful war they all fought against each other. She doesn't want Nightwake to get swept up in that.
She refuses to let Levi or Reiner get swept up in that. They both matter to her too much. They've both been through enough.
So...extremely careful, it is. Just...be really, really careful about how she reveals everything, both in terms of their future and the situation in Nightwake, where so many of her friends and his enemies currently are.
Her head twitches a little as she feels his hand touch her head. That and his words break her train of thought briefly.
"Aheheheh!" She giggles. "Yup! I'm getting pretty big, huh?" Then with a bit of a mischievous tone, she adds "Levi says I'm sprouting up like a weed!"
In her defense, she lasted at least 30 seconds.