More accurately, she's taking it upon herself to check up on him a little while after the hovercrash. It hadn't been easy for her to accept his insistence to linger behind, unaided, questioning her own inefficacy even as he argued for his agency. Her sensibilities can be, at times, very easy to offend. Leaving someone behind offends without question.
Texting is still a bit odd. (See: her unfortunate username.) At least she's better at it than Frederick, truly the technologically inept baby boomer to her quick learning millennial. Regardless, her wording is very precise. She's picked up the practice (mostly); not the colloquial nuances. ]
Hello. Is this Kruger?
We met not long ago. My apologies for the intrusive message. I wanted to see if you were well, after the calamitous landing.
[ An unfamiliar tone comes with a pleasant surprise. But his confusion stifles any gratification that would usually accompany getting texted by a cute girl.
He's read it dozens of times now, but he still can't quite believe it. But, having realized he's spent about half an hour just overthinking the few words she's sent him, he decides that now was the time to start working on a reply.
Ten minutes of deliberation later: ]
Yes.
[ Perfect. Now to wait for a reply - wait, no, no. Even he's sensible enough to realize that such a curt message means absolutely nothing without a follow up. It's in an unusual panic that he attempts to amend his mistake, and just a short minute of uneasy trepidation later: ]
You needn't apologize. I am the same as ever. Did you make it to the city?
Her own response is slow, although - it has to be said - not quite as slow as Eren's. Her excuse is less deliberation and more the fact that she types one painstaking letter at a time before searching for the next one. ]
I must admit, I did not quite anticipate ended up in a land quarrel.
[ That's... one way of putting it. Look, she's ignorant. ]
[ For a moment he had pictured her in the same, worrisome state as he: without a home or friends to take him in. Of course, there was always the station on the moon to provide for a place to rest, and food to eat, but at this moment in time that just so happened to be unavailable. How inconvenient.
He was glad that she didn't have to suffer as he did. ]
That's reassuring. And do you have a roommate?
[ ...he's only asking because of an earlier text conversation he's had with someone else. Don't get any ideas. ]
[ Her state, such as it is... Well. Worrisome, perhaps. She is largely alone here. She had been able to claim quarters in Olympia well enough, but that's hardly the end of her problems. Their problems. Everyone's.
She's not unaccustomed to taking care of herself. He may see her naivete as a prominent layer and he wouldn't be wrong, but that's not all there is. ]
Just a curiosity. Once before, a girl had screeched at me about how lonely she was without any company in her home.
[ Well, besides her pet. But that wasn't the point. Surely network user luc/ina isn't foolish enough to make the mistake of giving up her privacy with a roommate, right? ...He might as well see. ]
That, and being without a home myself, I couldn't help but wonder.
I cannot speak to the choices of others. If her isolation leaves her unhappy, then I am sorry for that disadvantage. While I enjoy the company of others, I can survive without.
[ To Lucina - or, indeed, to luc/ina - it's hardly complicated. In her own space, she has no one monitoring her comings and goings, which is how she prefers it. She raised herself in a way. She's spent years of her life in both physical and emotional solitude, setting aside even her own name.
There's little she's unprepared to do. Living by herself is hardly a challenge in the grander scheme of things. If her family were awake, it would perhaps be different, but they are not. ]
There is no reason you need be without a home, though. Housing in Olympia is granted easily enough.
[ don't be a dumb hobo, take a shower, it's free ]
Sadly, he's lacking a shower of his own, so that'll have to be put on hold for a while.
He takes some time to consider her position - alone, but comfortable in that. That's good. Very good. Better than he could have expected. He's just glad she's not going around inviting strangers in to stay. ]
Would you so easily trust this city and its people? It's quite violent at the moment, and looking like it might even get worse. One day, your window might get bricked and your possessions burgled while you're away.
[ He considered such unsavory acts more prevalent in the southern city of Wyver, but...all the same, he feels the need to bring it up. Just to gauge her trust in the one they'd both made their stay in, for better or for worse. ]
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More accurately, she's taking it upon herself to check up on him a little while after the hovercrash. It hadn't been easy for her to accept his insistence to linger behind, unaided, questioning her own inefficacy even as he argued for his agency. Her sensibilities can be, at times, very easy to offend. Leaving someone behind offends without question.
Texting is still a bit odd. (See: her unfortunate username.) At least she's better at it than Frederick, truly the technologically inept baby boomer to her quick learning millennial. Regardless, her wording is very precise. She's picked up the practice (mostly); not the colloquial nuances. ]
Hello. Is this Kruger?
We met not long ago. My apologies for the intrusive message. I wanted to see if you were well, after the calamitous landing.
un: kruger
He's read it dozens of times now, but he still can't quite believe it. But, having realized he's spent about half an hour just overthinking the few words she's sent him, he decides that now was the time to start working on a reply.
Ten minutes of deliberation later: ]
Yes.
[ Perfect. Now to wait for a reply - wait, no, no. Even he's sensible enough to realize that such a curt message means absolutely nothing without a follow up. It's in an unusual panic that he attempts to amend his mistake, and just a short minute of uneasy trepidation later: ]
You needn't apologize. I am the same as ever. Did you make it to the city?
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[ She had to go through the sewer.
Her own response is slow, although - it has to be said - not quite as slow as Eren's. Her excuse is less deliberation and more the fact that she types one painstaking letter at a time before searching for the next one. ]
I must admit, I did not quite anticipate ended up in a land quarrel.
[ That's... one way of putting it. Look, she's ignorant. ]
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shyslow. He's just perplexed. That much is obvious enough from the way he's writing. ]But you did make it. That's what matters. Good.
[ Is that...concern...!? ]
You have a permanent residence, I presume? Times like these, it might be safer to stay within one's home.
[ Not that he had one. ]
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[ You better reco'nize!
If the pauses between his messages are supposed to imply something, it goes right over Lucina's head. This apparatus is quite new to her. ]
Thank you for your concern, however.
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He was glad that she didn't have to suffer as he did. ]
That's reassuring. And do you have a roommate?
[ ...he's only asking because of an earlier text conversation he's had with someone else. Don't get any ideas. ]
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[ Her state, such as it is... Well. Worrisome, perhaps. She is largely alone here. She had been able to claim quarters in Olympia well enough, but that's hardly the end of her problems. Their problems. Everyone's.
She's not unaccustomed to taking care of herself. He may see her naivete as a prominent layer and he wouldn't be wrong, but that's not all there is. ]
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[ Well, besides her pet. But that wasn't the point. Surely network user luc/ina isn't foolish enough to make the mistake of giving up her privacy with a roommate, right? ...He might as well see. ]
That, and being without a home myself, I couldn't help but wonder.
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[ To Lucina - or, indeed, to luc/ina - it's hardly complicated. In her own space, she has no one monitoring her comings and goings, which is how she prefers it. She raised herself in a way. She's spent years of her life in both physical and emotional solitude, setting aside even her own name.
There's little she's unprepared to do. Living by herself is hardly a challenge in the grander scheme of things. If her family were awake, it would perhaps be different, but they are not. ]
There is no reason you need be without a home, though. Housing in Olympia is granted easily enough.
[ don't be a dumb hobo, take a shower, it's free ]
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Sadly, he's lacking a shower of his own, so that'll have to be put on hold for a while.
He takes some time to consider her position - alone, but comfortable in that. That's good. Very good. Better than he could have expected. He's just glad she's not going around inviting strangers in to stay. ]
Would you so easily trust this city and its people? It's quite violent at the moment, and looking like it might even get worse. One day, your window might get bricked and your possessions burgled while you're away.
[ He considered such unsavory acts more prevalent in the southern city of Wyver, but...all the same, he feels the need to bring it up. Just to gauge her trust in the one they'd both made their stay in, for better or for worse. ]