You think maybe there was a reason people got mad about the attack?

[It isn't something he likes to talk about, or think about, if there's not a point to doing so. Talking about that day hurts. But because he feels bad for Eren, he decides to try.]

[So he sets down his ponies and he reaches into his bag for a tablet. He takes it out of sleep mode, and pulls up an image gallery -- saved news images, from the coverage of the incident.]

Take a look for a second.

[There are students, pale and terrified, curled up in a huddle at the farthest point from the door of one of the interior rooms. Teachers, wounded and nearly as frightened, standing their ground as the Sentinels descend, some with lingering students hidden behind them. People in tears at Jean Grey's funeral.]

[There's one in there of himself, clipped from the school's security footage -- first pounding on the inside of a locked door in panicked tears, with other students trying to pull him away. He can still hear his own voice rising above the sirens, when he looks at it: Where is he? Who saw him come in? What if he's still out there -- let me out, I have to go look for him!]

The way we're born doesn't make us monsters. Not you, either.

Come on, don't you totally think we can do better than this?