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[A weekend of lost memories - it sat poorly with her, especially when she went back over her notes and found them missing as well. The dates for the weekend were written in her hand, but anything she'd written had been erased. Or maybe she hadn't written anything. The most concerning thing was that now that the weekend had ended, several people had gone missing or returned. Two days was a long time to lose her bearings and it made her restless. Which was why she'd gone to the shop to look around for anything useful.

Last thing she expected was to find the glove and eyeglass set - something so useful just left here like it was a new toy to be experimented with by anyone in the village. Something about it drew her to using it, but after the first day and the headaches, she realized it was probably something that belonged to someone. Which is why a few days later, after the headaches settle, she asks the village.]

Agent Carter reporting in with a few questions for the village.

One: Has anyone lost a pair of these? [She holds up the sunglasses, labeled ARI on the side to the camera.] I located them in the shop - interesting technology you have. I'd like to return them, if you're inclined to receive them.

[It packs one hell of a punch anyway, and she does not want that anymore. Peggy rubs her temple as he sets the glasses down out of view.]

Two: Sparring partners - hand to hand combat, preferably advanced non-magic practitioners. Willing to train people new to it, but more looking for practice myself. Can also train or spar in weapons - guns or knives specifically.

Three: On a more personal note, to my roommates - if you don't start cleaning your areas and picking up your things, I will do it for you.

[She looks straight into the camera with her usual no-nonsense look in her eyes.]

You will not enjoy it if I am forced to do so.

That is all.

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How experienced are you with these?

[She goes to the first target and wrenches the axe out, flipping it around as she walks over to hand it to Levi.]

Or would a knife fight better suit you?

Usually use them for chopping wood instead of cleaving skulls.

[flatly, but he takes it, feeling the weight. He's not really spent much time throwing axes. Knives are closer to what he works with.]

I usually use longer blades, but knives will work.

The principle is the same.

[She leaves the first axe with Levi and goes to retrieve the second, working it out of the wood and the paper target. She hefts it in her hand, wondering how much longer until she needs to sharpen the edge as she walks back.]

Longer blades as in swords or something else? If you'd rather spar with blades face to face, we may want to move to the Battle Dome.

Similar to swords, but they're not used for fighting other people.

[detachable blades for fighting giant humanoids. Not quite the same. He waits for her to return back to the starting line before testing the weight and feel of the axe with a couple of mock throws.

Levi gives a hard swing of his arm suddenly with a light grunt, and the axe thunks into the wood right at the throat of the paper outline.]

If not people, then who do you fight?

[She watches him test the weight and then raises an eyebrow at the accuracy he has despite not having apparently used these before. She looks over at him from the corner of her eye and hands the second one off.]

[he's had plenty of practice throwing things, just not necessarily axes. He'd been aiming for the head and got the throat, although that's also the part of the body he's used to going for, after all.

He takes the second, rotates it around a couple of times with his wrist.]

Man-eating titans.

[the second axe buries itself in the chest.]

Man-- [Seriously? She just stares at him for a moment, then goes to fetch the axes. Actually, no, she could believe it. There's a talking pony and a lizard woman in the village, so why not man-eating titans? She's rooming with an Asgardian prince who was apparently responsible for the Norse myths, so why not man-eating titans? ...but seriously, wow, that has to be one hell of a world to grow up in.]

It wouldn't be the strangest thing I've heard of since coming here. By titans, I take it you mean large humanoids and not the creatures of Greek myth?

[Greek again, but she's assuming something closer to his reality rather than the myth. He quirks one brow slightly in suspicion, but nods.]

Yeah. They vary in size, but they all seem to have one singular mind to consume humans, and they have only one weak spot.

So which is it? [She points to the first axe before pulling both of them out. It's awful to think that such a thing could happen - titans that have a biological drive to consume humans? With only one weak spot? She's grateful those things haven't appeared here yet.] Neck or the chest?

The neck. Specifically the nape.

[Perhaps one of the most frightening parts about it is that there isn't even a biological drive. As far as any of them can tell, there is no real compelling reason.]

[The nape of the neck - one of the hardest spots to hit. Vulnerable, yes, but small and easy to miss. As she walks back toward Levi, she's curious about his world - what sort of monstrous place pits you against giant beings that ate people and had only one weak spot?]

You must have been in the group asking about that specialized gear, yes? I heard the chatter on the network.

[he's not terribly pleased about that kind of information getting around so easily, but it's done now.]

Possibly. I wasn't participating personally. The gear was developed specifically for fighting the titans.

It's amazing what people will say when they think others aren't spying.

[Carter hands Levi one of the axes, keeping the other for herself.]

It was my business to know back home - I've tried to keep up with it here.

It's amazing what people will say if you just ask.

[people have been incredibly forthcoming with their information thus far, as far as he's discerned. Others less so - those who actually know the value of information.

He tests the weight of the axe again, but waits for her move.]

Yes, but information that comes cheap is rarely of actual value.

[She remembers reading the Guide when she first arrived. It was a good primer, but it didn't prepare her for the long stretches, the drafts and fighting, watching people disappear, seeing how it would affect the ones left behind. The psychological torture of being in Luceti couldn't be written about in some book and no one would ever talk about it just by being asked.

Peggy turned back to the target range, pivoted and threw the axe horizontally, severing one of the hanging dummies at the neck. The axe thumped into a tree a few feet behind it.]

Don't you agree?

[he watches her movements, and the way his eyebrow quirks up shows that he's definitely impressed. It's notable how quickly she's becoming someone of interest to him.

Levi gives a hard swing and lets the axe fly into another hanging dummy, where it buries itself deep in the chest.]

Yeah. Though sometimes you can find something you've been missing from someone who wags their tongue too easily.

Dip and arc it upwards.

[Compensate for the difference in height from the paper target to the dummy and the weight of the axe. Peggy knows how long it took her to get it all right, and she'd rather see her experience serve someone else faster. She strides forward and digs the axe out with one hand, the other holding the dummy steady, then walks back to Levi, handing it to him.]

The loose tongues are easy enough to eavesdrop on with the journals. It's surprising how little people lock away when they're talking.

[he tries it her way this time, and it lands in the throat. He drops his arm, stares at the dummy a moment and considers how placated so many people had become after a hundred years free of the terror of titans in their midst.]

A perceived peace can make fools of us all.

I take it you have experience with such a thing?

[Time to go retrieve the axes again. She pulls each one out, puts them in their holsters at her side and then reaches up to untie the ruined dummies.]

Can you bring me the other two? Just there, leaned up against the building.

Unfortunately.

[he glances over to the place she's indicated, and moves to bring them - they're both just about the same size he is, but he has little trouble bringing both over and helping her swap them out with the others.]

What about you? What sort of terrors are there in your world?

Terrors?

[She ties a strong knot on the dummy to keep it hanging until its head is also severed and frowns.]

A hundred different ones - nothing quite like these large titans of yours, but threatening nonetheless. We just finished a world war against a psychotic dictatorship and are now trying to round up the last of an off-shoot fringe group bent on global domination. [Even after stopping the Red Skull and all that Steve sacrificed, HYDRA remained a thorn in their side.] And it seems that when one threat stops, five more spring up.

Sounds like our world has lots of great things to look forward to if we ever eradicate the titans.

[which isn't to say that people don't already fight and kill people - just not quite on as large of a scale...although that might change depending on how this coups they're planning goes. All Levi can do is trust Erwin, even if it might get all of them killed by execution. That'd certainly make some people happy - formally executing all of the members of the Survey corps. Grand.]

Ironic that we're trying to save humanity when people seem bent on destroying themselves anyway.

Were you honestly expecting anything different? [She looks over at him, eyebrow raised. She had never wanted to become a cynic - she still believed that there was good in the world worth saving, good that Steve had died fighting for - but it was hard to stay optimistic when the war ended and she'd been shoved off to the corner. She'd gone from agent to desk jockey, fighting for even the slightest chance at being given a second glance when it came to picking field agents. She knew the world was dangerous and there was no changing that.

She tied the knot on the second dummy and sighed.]

Not everyone is; I suppose that's what we fight to save - the ones who want to live in peace without fear of being harmed by men with bad intentions.

[She slipped the axes out of their holsters and handed one over to Levi.]

Ever the uphill battle, isn't it.

No, I wasn't.

[He takes the axe from her, getting used to its weight and balance a little more. Tosses it lightly, catches it by the handle again, then hurls it forward with more strength and speed than the last few times.

The dummy falls to the ground, severed at the neck.]

I have no illusions about what people are capable of doing to each other.

Especially during war and times of duress. [She watches the axe fly and she lets herself smile a little as the dummy drops to the ground.]

But here, at least, there is relative peace - until the drafts start again. Then we might just be needing men like you and me again.

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