"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."

Petra sighed as she sat leaned against a tree with Aisa in front of her. The wait for the Captain and the others was painfully long. Gunther was with some of Squad Leader Hanji's squad going through the book and seeing if they recognised anyone.

"Where's Levi?" Aisa said and scowled at Petra.

"I don't know." Petra huffed. It was getting a bit annoying, waiting for her Captain's orders when she knew what she had to do. She had to have permission to go with Aisa to HQ and get her cleaned up and give her food, juice and clothes, not to mention get Hanji to check her over.

"Levi told me I'm a brat. What's a brat?"

"A brat is a rude way of calling someone a child."

"… child?"

"Someone under the age of 18."

"… age? 18?" Petra took a deep breath and blew up her cheeks in frustration. This kid didn't have much of an education, that had to be fixed.

"So let's start with numbers, can you count to 10?"

It seemed to be one surprised after another. Levi looked at the book that looked identical to the one Petra and Gunther had found. Apart from the fact this one had the kids names and two words next to them, the first word was either 'shifter' or 'titan' the second was 'deceased', 'breathing' or 'full' a lot of them had 'Titan, Full' or 'Shifter, Deceased' only a few had 'Titan, breathing' and even fewer, about one every ten pages had 'Shifter, Breathing.'

"What does this mean?" Levi said out loud, breaking the silence between his two squad members.

"We wouldn't know now would we Captain?" Oluo raised an eyebrow. "We know just as much as you do." He added with a shake of his head.

"Pick it up and let's leave this dead place before they come in for us." Levi said after a few minutes of silence. Erd picked up the book and started walking off, Oluo following behind him quickly. Levi wanted to see what it said about Aisa, he was curious.

He hadn't told Oluo and Erd the entire story of Aisa and the other book, mainly because he didn't have the time. The clogs in his mind were turning with the possibilities of Aisa's life and the trauma she had probably experienced. And he was even more concerned about her last name.

It made him edgy. It made his guilty conscious deeper and a lot more painful. It may be just a coincidence. In fact it probably was, but something inside Levi said it wasn't, this was the world's way of getting back at him for his past choices, a last name. Staying behind to listen to Aisa's information was probably a bad idea.

"Levi." Erwin's voice said, the shorter man was jolted back to reality and ripped from his past. He looked up at the Commander and scowled "The child? You have a very good explanation I assume."

"Shut up Eyebrows, the kid is a rescue subject. She may be a witness for all this stuff. So shut your face and where are Petra and the kid?" Levi hissed.

"Over behind the tree line. Gunther and one of Hanji's squad are working on the first book. But we are moving out now so saddle up and let's go."

"Saddle up..." Levi repeated quietly.

Petra placed Aisa in front of her on the saddle and watched her Captain jump up on the horse beside her.

"Return to HQ, Oluo you clean up the horses, Erd and Gunther help with the books, Petra take Aisa for a bath, food and handover to Hanji for a hospital check." Levi ordered his Squad.

"Yessir." They all said in unison, only time for a quick smirk at each other before they all rode off on the horses. Aisa's eyes were wide as she looked around the landscape. Petra suspected the poor kid had never seen light or trees or the outside before. It was hard to imagine a life in darkness. No, that wasn't life at all, that was just surviving. Aisa wasn't alive she was surviving in the dark. It must have been horrible...

Petra shook the thoughts from her head and carried on in the formation to the nearby Wall Maria. They were the first inside, but they weren't at their base yet, they were in Shigansina. The base of Shigansina was close to the main wall. Petra watched the others go off one way while she followed Hanji to the stables. The young scout climbed off her horse and plucked Aisa off it as well.

"She's very thin Petra, I suggest you give her something fatty." Hanji said before she walked off inside. Petra made a mental note to congratulate Hanji later on for stating the obvious.