A soldier... God, you're just a kid. I mean, in my world, you'd be just old enough to enlist, even if you're baby-faced enough to pass for someone in high school, but I thought you've been here for... years. [He frowns.] You're nineteen now, right? So you'd have been fighting before you'd have even come of age where I come from.

Jesus.

[He knew Armin was from a lower technology world, not because of anything Armin had explicitly said, but from things he'd picked up via conversation. So it made sense in an awful way that Armin could have gone to war as a teenager. Still...]