[ Raleigh can relate to that more than he'd like to, except he'd definitely stopped. For a long time. ]

Demo, huh? I went to work on the wall -- it was designed to keep Kaiju from making land but they smashed right through. We kept building anyway. Had to pretend there was some hope left, I guess, but I knew it was useless. They engineers threw around that it was impenetrable the same way people said the Titanic was unsinkable. It was just something to do.

I always tried to drown it out. Keep out of my head, you know? Always had the tv on, audiobooks and language programs at work, extra shifts and long workouts, just trying to keep distracted. They offered me therapy but nobody understood, so I disappeared instead.

[ He shrugs a little, picking up his second needle and shifting his grip on the first, to know Frank how to actually knit a stitch. ]