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        His brows raised and settled in a troubled manner, feeling his
              heart sink a little deeper in his chest.

                                   ”Oh, where on earth could he be?”

        He groaned nervously. At least he had found someone that might
             offer him directions, but that didn’t change the fact that he was
             terribly lost.
                                            “Uhm…C-could you tell me where I might be?”

▍ ▎ ▏ { ☼ } ;

                  A sliver of pity welled up in Armin’s stomach for the small boy; the poor 
        kid—who knows how long he’d been adrift and hunting for his companion?

                With the town cleanup on the go, this place wasn’t at all a s a f e 
                      environment for him to be in, let alone aimlessly wandering the streets;
        the chances of him falling ill to disease or playing the victim in a Titan’s
                                                               digestive system were f a r  too high.

                  ❝Trost District—'err, well…its r e m n a n t s, per se.
         Anyhow, I, uh—
                   how exactly did you end up in such an u n f a v o r a b l e situation?❞