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nno ifeel liek shjt

[But yes he is in fact alive!]

[ok that was slightly more intelligible. and...about what he was expecting, given connie's track record in the medtent lately. it's not that he isn't concerned at all, but the first thing he asks—]

you manage to piss anyone off lately

[So cruel, Eren, jumping straight to conclusions like that. Connie's offended.]

nno???? why wuold you askk that

[Woah, look, he has reasons!!! Reasons other than you being an annoying asshole sometimes.]

Vriska said she thinks someone tried to poison her. They fucked up, but she still got pretty sick.

[And you've been sick a whole lot lately.]

[That text comes as something of a surprise, and it takes five minutes for Connie to a) comprehend what he's just been told, and b) to actually type something that makes sense back.]

why?? wuold aneone do that
where do you gett posion from
am i goign too die

you're not gonna die, dumbass.

[Death by poison is not an option Connie don't even think about it.]

just watch your back.

[They don't even know for sure it was poison, or that it was intentional, or that the same person might try and take out anyone else. But it's fishy enough to stand a head's up.]

[YOU NEVER KNOW better to be safe and cover all bases.]

i feel like imm gonna die
and my back is to the bedd i cant wacth my back

[Connie please... He's going to be kind for once and chalk that one up to being sick or something.]

then get yourself back on your feet

[you've been laid up too long already. Get better, you idiot.

After a pause:]

you know isabel?

[Aye-aye, cap'n. For all that Connie sometimes doesn't take training all that seriously, being confined to the medtent's driving him batshit crazy.

Isabel though....]

yeah she broke my roevr
isnt she captian levis friend?

[Don't call him cap'n that's weird....]

yeah.

[He'd had a slightly awkward heart to heart with the Captain over it that he doesn't intend to share. The important part, as far as catching Connie up, is:]

She's gone. They said they transferred to her another crew.

[If there's anything that can pull Connie out of his sick vomit-induced stupor, it's that.]

transferred? can they evne do that?? did she want to bee transferred?

[Eren "Ray of Sunshine" Jaeger here to brighten your day with good news.]

would you?

[Like any of them would choose to just up and abandon the Corps. Knowing what he does now, that she'd gone way back with Levi, joined the Corps with him, died in the line of duty... There's no way she'd just back out on him, right?]

FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org

we didn't know it happened until she was already gone.

[It could have been any one of them. Without warning. It's really frustrating.]

[That's pretty shitty good news, if Connie's honest. He's feeling sick again, but not for the same reason as before.]

but she wuolndt leave without sayin anything right

[He'd only talked to her a few times, didn't know her nearly as well as he maybe ought to have, but she'd never struck him as someone who would up and leave without a word. No one in the Corps would.]

how did you guys find out

she didn't get a choice.

[He doesn't know that, but he believes it anyway. She wouldn't have left without saying anything if she had a choice. (She wouldn't have left at all.) It's hard to get the right amount of angry scorn across in text, but maybe Connie can imagine it. (If nothing else he's mashing his keys a little too hard.)]

Dagger sent out a message earlier. It wasn't just her.

[Connie could look it up if he wanted to see the damage. Whether or not it could happen again is still up in the air.]

[Connie would look it up if he were a) technologically competent enough to, and b) not feeling the sudden urge to throw up again. So instead he settles for - five minutes later, after puking yet again - asking Eren about the contents of Dagger's message.]

who else

['That we know.']

[Sorry, Connie. The rest isn't exactly good news, but it could be worse]

more than a dozen. no one else from the corps. the commander's out on some kind of mission, but everyone else is still accounted for.

[And that's as much as they can hope for. He would have said so sooner if the damage was any worse for them. He can't speak for Connie's acquaintances here, but there was no one else he'd known on the list outside of Isabel. It's agitating. Because it's not like they're dead, they've just been reassigned. But the CDC isn't like the military back home, they can't know where she's gone, or what she's doing. What's going on or when they'll see her again. If any of the rest of them would be next.]

[Connie breathes a sigh of relief at the message, despite the hefty number of supposed transfers. He's got a couple people he likes here, but his concern is for his squadmates first and foremost.

And because Connie's fairly simple-minded and unafraid to speak his mind, it's not a minute later that he sends the following message:]

do you think any of us are giong to get transferred next

we won't.

[He's not naive enough to think that if he just believes it hard enough, it'll work out that way. But he's not going to sit back and live in fear of it. They won't let it happen again. ...somehow.]

get your ass out of medical so you can catch up for good.