[ He’s from before the Rumbling, then. Years before. That’s…pretty disorienting, actually, the thought that he can be from a time before her. It also means she doesn’t know if Reiner was still alive when she awoke from her crystalline prison, but that’s a thought she shelves for later, when she can properly bury any associated emotions. ]

I wasn’t being tortured. I guess you know that now, though. [ She nudges him in the side with her foot, a little too roughly to be teasing. ] As if I’d let them touch me.

[ Instead, she trapped herself within Titan crystal in a moment of desperation, and it took Eren Jaeger to free her. That she owes her current state of existence to Eren is something else she isn’t ready to think about yet.

Speaking of.

He thinks it’s good to see her, which is a particularly unfunny joke, except he seems to be serious. It makes her heart do a thing in her chest, which is entirely unwelcome, so she gives him another (more gentle) kick to the side instead of acknowledging it. ]

Stop lying there and get up.