Silent Call

Paths

At the sound of knocking. Eren's eyes opened up wide. He went to push his upper body up, only for his hand to sink into the air mattress. He lifted his hand back up and moved it over onto the bedroom floor and pushed himself up. "Come in" his voice was raspy and his hair blocked his vision. He closed his eyelids and raised his hands up to his face to pull his hair away from his eyes while he heard the sound of the door opening.

Immediately, the smell of food entered his nose before the person who entered his bedroom spoke. "Kyrie wasn't sure what to make you for breakfast so she resorted to French Toast" Eren opened his eyes to see Nero, holding a tray of what looked to be bread but it looked and smelled much different. The older man bent down and placed the tray on the floor on Eren's left before standing back up straight and leaned against the wall.

"Eat up soldier boy. We got shit to do today" Eren looked towards the tray of food and lifted it up onto his blanket covered lap. "We?" Nero nodded his head. "While you haven't done anything to make me think otherwise. Myself and Kyrie don't completely trust you to stay here at our home by yourself. That is why I have decided to bring you along with me to a new gig"

Eren grabbed one of the pieces of French toast and sniffed it before taking a bite out of it. "The Taxes won't pay themselves, even if we are tired. And before you ask what would be in it for you, I think that we might just be able to acquire information on these jobs of your missing home"
While the sun shined down onto the lower half of his body. Eren took Nero's words and processed them in his mind.

"And what makes you think we will find any information? From what pieces of information I can piece together from all of our conversations about these demons. It sounds like you are just some exterminator for demons. Not an investigator" Nero raised his right hand up and pointed his index finger at Eren. "That's exactly it though. Whenever something happens, it usually involves demons in some way, shape or form. I bet that if you come along with me on these gigs, we are bound to find something related to the disappearance of your home"

"You believe the demons to be the ones responsible for Paradis's disappearance?" Nero nodded his head. "I had Nico hack into a dozen or so satellites while you were asleep. Using those satellites we got a good view of those coordinates we took a look at from the Map in the van, from all the way up from space" and even before Eren could ask what a Satellite or space was. Nero used his hand to hint to him that there was something on the bottom of the tray.

Eren felt along the bottom of the tray with his left hand while he used his right to lift it off his lap. "Does the tray have some sort of false bottom?" Nero shook his head. "Lift it above your head and take a look" Eren did as Nero instructed and found himself looking at a large white envelope with no sides or top, stuck to the trays metallic bottom.

Eren quickly tore the strange envelope from the bottom and set aside the tray of food as images with Colour slid out onto his lap. 'Coloured photographs. Never thought something like this would ever be possible but here I am' the nineteen year old thought to himself as he picked up the pieces of paper and looked at what Nero wanted to show him. "Nico made sure to draw what she found in that white line you see. What's in that white outline however is what she took most interest in"

Within the blue ocean was a white line that transformed into a shape that Eren recognized after hours of simply looking at it.

"Wow. So this is the whole world" Armin said in amazement before raising his head to look at Eren with the same look in his eyes that he had in them that day his best friend showed him his illegal book about what was supposedly outside the walls. "A world that wants to us to be eradicated from the face of this earth" Eren replied pessimistically.

"There has to be some good people. Look at the Anti-Marley-Volunteers. Without there help, we wouldn't even have this map" Armin replied as he looked back down to the map and frowned. "And Compared to it. Paradis seems so small"
"It's still amazing however that there are people that have mapped out the entire world and are still continuing to do so till this very day" Hange spoke. "Though Paradis's shape does look like a high heel shoe without the back part of it"