Hange taps her glass against the table a couple times, mulling her response over.
"About ten years ago now, the walls experienced an attack... we lived in three walls, you see? Concentric rings. The outermost wall was breached and the territory between the middle and outer wall became impossible for humans to inhabit. It was a crushing blow to us.
The winter after Wall Maria's collapse, the monarchy ordered a quarter of our population outside. It was billed as a 'resettlement effort' but everyone with a functioning brain knew that in actuality, it was an effort to toss people out of the lifeboat to make it more comfortable for the rest. Everyone lost someone in the exodus. Friends, family. And out of the two hundred fifty thousand who left, about one hundred survivors returned to us."
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"About ten years ago now, the walls experienced an attack... we lived in three walls, you see? Concentric rings. The outermost wall was breached and the territory between the middle and outer wall became impossible for humans to inhabit. It was a crushing blow to us.
The winter after Wall Maria's collapse, the monarchy ordered a quarter of our population outside. It was billed as a 'resettlement effort' but everyone with a functioning brain knew that in actuality, it was an effort to toss people out of the lifeboat to make it more comfortable for the rest. Everyone lost someone in the exodus. Friends, family. And out of the two hundred fifty thousand who left, about one hundred survivors returned to us."