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A bottle...? Oh.

"In that shack back there?"

This place seriously just gets weirder and weirder...

Armin nods, slowly straightening up. He's embarrassed to admit it. How foolish had it been to fall into such a trap, and so quickly? He hadn't been able to break through the windows either. There'd been no other way that he could find to escape.

"Can't seem...to stop."

Which is a pity, because he really hates running. He's not usually very good at it, either. Today seems to be the exception.

Well that's an interesting dilemma. And an annoying one, if it means waiting for Armin to catch his breath every few minutes. Though while the idea of simply going on without him certainly crosses Mika's mind, he can't help wondering a bit about how the strange effect works.

"... What if you only try to move a short distance?" he says after a moment.

"I arrive quickly."

A joke? Perhaps. If it is, the tone isn't there for it. Armin is feeling a little tired at this point, after all.

"Even one step?"

He's kind of going somewhere with this, and it actually doesn't matter all that much what the answer is. Not if what he's thinking is possible.

Are they going to attempt to leave one step at a time?

Ah. That sounds frustrating, but perhaps there's some merit to it. "I haven't tried. I've been trying to slow down, or stop, but only with an objective in mind."

"Taking just one step quickly isn't as tiring as running a long distance, right?"

Mika realizes it would be incredibly tedious, but that he's bothering to offer a suggestion at all is more than he'd normally do. Besides, unless Armin has a better idea...

"I suppose not."

It's worth a try! Though of course as soon as Armin makes an attempt, he finds himself standing under a tree, several hundred yards away.

Ah. He'll need a bit of practice at this.

"Sorry!"

Mika just shrugs at that.

"You're the one it's a problem for, right?"

... And just keeps walking. He already did what he could do to help, after all.

Hmm. That's that, then. Armin blinks, and hopes that he won't come across anything else particularly threatening.

He'd better keep practicing taking one step at a time, then. In the event he needs to run he'll be glad that he's saved the energy.

Armin's certainly free to tag along, of course, Mika just isn't going to bother waiting up. If Armin wants to stick with him, he'll have to figure out how to keep pace on his own, is all.

Try to tag along Armin does, in fact. It isn't as successful as he would like. He keeps finding himself running ahead, though in shorter bursts than before. He even tries closing his eyes, but that just ends with him sliding belly down in a bunch of swampy sludge. Ugh.

Still, he keeps Mika in sight. If he's defenseless, it can't hurt to stay close to someone powerful. He's willing to risk annoying the man for a little for that sake.

"Have you been here a long time?"

The colony, that is. This particular place aside.

For his part, Mika just continues walking on in the same direction, looking around for something--anything--that might give a clue as to how to get out of this place.

"No." The answer to both questions is the same, anyway. He doesn't bother returning the question, however. Why should he care?

That doesn't seem strange to Armin. He's only recently graduated training, only recently grown to age of majority. It would be far stranger if someone happened to be interested in him than not. At any rate, Mika himself is a far more interesting topic of conversation.

"What are the rules? -For vampire."

He'd rather not get himself into a situation where he becomes a desirable snack, after all. Even if it seems he's died young at home (that's hardly unexpected after all,) he's in no hurry to repeat the mistake again here.

"What do you mean?"

Mika honestly isn't sure what Armin meant. Did he mean laws? There were few enough of those, and they varied depending on the vampire in charge of an area, anyway.

It isn't clear, is it? It's a bit tough to concentrate on two things at once, so Armin stops his attempts at walking normally for a moment to clarify. It's rude, of course, but important. They're better off to just get it out of the way, aren't they? Then it won't be hanging in the air between them.

"I'm a human, so I'd like to know. If you're not interested in eating me...well, I appreciate that. But what about others? What should I expect?"

That question gets Mika to stop, too, and turn back to glance at Armin. The only answer he can give is a shrug, however.

"If there's other vampires here, they'll do what they want. Unless a higher-ranking noble than them has forbidden it."

And even then, it would be a matter of getting caught breaking such a rule.

"I see."

He'd been afraid it might be something like that. Armin runs past again with another groan, and collapses in defeat in a nearby puddle of swampwater. It's revolting, but he's far too exhausted to care at this point.

"Have you been forbidden?"

That's not what Mika has said before, after all. He'd said Armin would be dead if he wanted, not if he were allowed. Maybe Mika himself has a high ranking? He certainly doesn't seem to be afraid of much in this strange, new environment.

"No."

A simple answer to a simple question.

"It's against the rules to drink blood directly from a human in Sanguinem, but outside no one enforces it. And this isn't Japan, either." Which means it's outside of Krul's control, anyway. It could be another vampire's territory, of course, but Mika has no way of knowing that either way.

And it's not like even within Sanguinem the rules were always strictly observed, either.

It isn't the response that trips Armin up this time, but something entirely different. He gapes openly for a long moment before he remembers how to close his mouth.

"You're- vampire are Japanese?"

Mika would've assumed that it was realizing there's nothing but his own personal choice stopping him from drinking Armin's blood that caused that reaction... but then Armin goes and asks that, instead.

"There's vampires all over the world," he says flatly, as if that should have been obvious.

"I'm from Japan," he adds a moment later, as an afterthought.

"I see."

Except it seems that he doesn't. Armin takes a step blindly and slips onto his backside again in another muddy spot. This time he hardly reacts, just stares down at the mud for a long moment.

He shouldn't ask, of course, but he can't help it. It just comes out.

"When you say all over the world... where else?"

"Everywhere," Mika replies indifferently. "Wherever they want." Though usually near populations of humans, if nothing else, for what should be rather obvious reasons.

He'd been hoping for the names of more countries, but he's not sure that he should admit that. This man doesn't seem very interested in him, but what if that was enough to make him curious enough to ask why Armin wouldn't know the countries for himself? It's best not to try and explain.

Armin is quiet for a moment while he pulls himself up out of the mud. His legs are shaking, so there is a long moment of peace. It doesn't last, though.

"Is it difficult not to?"

"Not to what?"

Suffice it to say Mika isn't really sparing much thought for considering what parts of the conversation Armin might still be wondering about.

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...this thread keeps reminding me I need to catch up on AoT manga XD