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"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.

"Partake."

In human flesh, that is. Armin's curiosity has always gotten him in trouble.

"..."

It takes a moment or two for Mika to realize what exactly Armin's asking, and another to decide whether he even wants to answer.

"Not right now," he says at last. It's a half-answer in that it doesn't explain why... but maybe Armin can figure that out for himself.

"I see."

He doesn't, not exactly, but that response gives him an idea. Armin puzzles over it for a moment. Does that mean Mika might be dangerous to know in the future? Will Armin want to be cautious? That's what he'd like to know. He glances over curiously, trying to think of the best way to ask.

"For a while?"

Mika really doesn't know how to answer this. He shouldn't have said anything in the first place. And does he really owe Armin an explanation, anyway? But since he already did bring it up...

"How hard is it for you to go without eating?"

Not that Mika particularly likes to think of it that way himself... Except it really is exactly the case. If he went without blood for long enough, his ability to ignore that craving would diminish to the point of being nearly impossible to control.

"It depends."

That's not a particularly good response, but it's the truth. It becomes easier with practice, and Armin has had plenty. It also becomes more difficult when expending a lot of energy. Whether or not vampire metabolism works the same was a s a human's, the point is made. The man will need to eat at some point. The silence is uncomfortable this time, the pause is heavier than the last one.

"I've never done it intentionally."

That, he suspects, must be far more challenging. Being denied is hard enough, but to have the food at hand and will himself not to eat it? It seems like that would require a lot of willpower.

To perhaps make matters worse, almost as if to make up for their lack of desires for other things, a vampire's craving for blood is considerably more intense. It's not remotely uncommon for even a vampire who's fully sated to be unable to stop himself from drinking his next victim dry. Mika himself has far more self-control than most, but even he's come dangerously close in the past to losing that control.

Not that he particularly likes to think about that, of course.

He just gives a slight nod to Armin's response without saying anything more, however, instead turning to continue walking and looking for a way out of this place.

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

it is pretty intense lately! well it always was but It Got Worse.

Yeah I think I just got tired of how drawn out the plot arc I was on at the time was getting...

it's probably past that part now!

It's been almost a year so I'm sure it is, haha

oh wow then you have so many things to discover yep

Yeah the last chapter I read was like the cavern Eren was being held in was gonna collapse I think?