Backdated to just before "Endless Poem" (locked to zetahatsudo)

[srwuga_mods]

[It happened practically in the span of hours.  What was once a fairly civil if small town on America's west coast suddenly exploded with activity as numerous Titans warships and quick-assembly facilities for building up an army of mobile dolls started to dot the landscape.  Before long, armed guards began to walk the streets, with the town's mayor trying to explain everyone that the Titans would only be staying for a short while and had given the town a number of supplies already as a show of good faith.

[And it is here that an unlikely encounter would take place...]