#weirdcuriosity

Hands on hips, lips pursed and brows well and truly furrowed, Eld looked down at the... thing before him. He opened his mouth, then thought better of it. I mean, really what could you say?

Earlier that morning, Eld had been summoned to the courtyard that was used by Squad Leader Hanji. Tucked away in a mostly disused section of Survey Corp HQ, officially it was the “outdoor experimentation area”. To Eld and Auruo, it was “Hanji’s playground”. As second-in-command of the Special Operations Squad, he had been invited to cast an eye over a new weapon the frenetic Squad Leader had invented. After all, he and his Squad were going to be key to its deployment in the field. Or so Captain Levi said.

Running his spindly fingers over the tuft of hair sprouting from his chin, Eld tipped his head to one side, scrutinising the thing in front of him. It didn’t look like a weapon to him. More like a group of over-turned beer barrels. The Squad Leader was obviously proud of it though, judging be the wide smile plastered across her face. He’d have to chose his next words carefully...

He turned to Hanji.

“Ha! As if I would think about that…”

          “Good.”

Levi flicks the lid of his lighter open and closed, rhythmic and slow, while he reflects in his thoughts. Rather, considers his options. Specifically, culls over their choice in equipment. 

“What is it about guns,” he muses aloud, turning his nose up at the three lining one end of the table-on-wheels. Popping the zippo’s lid three times in quick succession before he lifts his gaze and dulls it on Hanji. “I don’t understand the fascination.” Or the fear, really. But it’s undeniably present in the eyes of most people when they’re facing down the barrel, Levi’s long-since learned. 

He supposes they are effective when it comes to offing some sorry bastard quickly and effortlessly, but that’s not the job they're tasked with. Erwin wants them to get the man to talk. Find out why a deal that should’ve been cemented went south at his expense, what’s happened beyond his current knowledge that’s changed things and why that expense hasn’t been returned but withheld indefinitely. And of course, why they couldn’t have simply had a normal conversation about this like their boss had so respectfully asked for in the first place. 

This is just something of a call-up to the non-response. 

TO: TALL ARSE

“theres a new body, at a house in.. redsburg, a two hour drive out into the country.” levi muttered to hange, leaning against their desk and flipping the page of information over to read more. “they have photos here, doesn’t seem too bad. looks like an older gentlemen, found in a barn, covered in muck.. they don’t know if it was foul play- or an accident. they don’t know his name or where he lives, whether its his barn or he was dumped there. seemed pretty run down.” he hummed, dropping the clipboard onto hanges desk and pushing off with his leg to look at them.