[ It really is fascinating, seeing how Eren acts around... well, anyone else. They spend so much time together, just the two of them in Eyn Sof, that Maruki has gotten used to a very different side of Eren.

He laughs, waves it off easily. ]

If only we were that fancy! Please keep thinking of us that way.

[ His smartphone buzzes in his pocket; he removes it briefly with a murmured apology, has to check in case it's a patient. It isn't, but when he swipes away the message, he sees the photo gallery still left open and grins up at the two of them. ]

Subaru-kun, would you like to see the photos we took on our hike today?

[ And by that he mostly means Eren's photos, but he is nothing if not a man of leading questions. ]