It's been a long time since Eren's been in a crowd.

He doesn't like it any better now than he did then. His humans are with him, their makeshift family huddled against the throng, and Maria squirming in the cage of his arms. The city is unfamiliar to him, and the strange smells and sounds irritate his senses and make his hackles rise. They had traveled two days to get here, and the congestion of people reminds him all too vividly of the port-city they'd found themselves in after the Fall.

Armin pulls them through, murmuring apologies to everyone person he pushes aside, and eventually they get to the main office. There is a long line of people spilling out of it into the street, and it takes them an hour or so to finally make it to the front. There are signs and flyers with bright colors calling attention to the Effort to Reclaim Wall Maria, as well as recruitment information ' 'propaganda', Armin calls it' ' for the military.