It does. When you're up there, above the trees, close to the sky... it feels like freedom.
[Or as close to freedom as any of them got on the island.]
It came at a cost, certainly. But I'll tell you a secret: now that I'm here, and I'm unable to do it anymore, I miss it.
[Erwin had already been more or less benched from using the gear when he lost his arm, but he'd still been able to use it to scale the walls. Even that dizzying rush had felt like freedom, when their world had been closing in around them and there'd been no escape.]
There were even two different types of maneuver gear. The kind I used attached at the small of the back, and left the arms completely free. Good for the field, and wide open spaces, but limiting in enclosed areas. We found out about another type that attached at the shoulders, and was better for urban combat.
literal rocket science! and I am but a lowly English grad student
[Or as close to freedom as any of them got on the island.]
It came at a cost, certainly. But I'll tell you a secret: now that I'm here, and I'm unable to do it anymore, I miss it.
[Erwin had already been more or less benched from using the gear when he lost his arm, but he'd still been able to use it to scale the walls. Even that dizzying rush had felt like freedom, when their world had been closing in around them and there'd been no escape.]
There were even two different types of maneuver gear. The kind I used attached at the small of the back, and left the arms completely free. Good for the field, and wide open spaces, but limiting in enclosed areas. We found out about another type that attached at the shoulders, and was better for urban combat.