The turtle encounter happened around midday when Eren was heading east toward a berry patch he'd been raiding for the last week.
He spotted them from about two hundred meters away thanks to his boosted Perception. Three shapes moving slowly through the underbrush. At first he thought they were rocks. Then the rocks moved.
They were turtles. Sort of. Each one was about the size of a large dog but the shells on their backs were massive, easily three times the size of the animal underneath. The shells didn't look like normal turtle shells either. They looked like chunks of underwater coral reef had been transplanted onto land, covered in tiny growths and mineral deposits that glimmered with blue and green light. Patches of dried algae and what might have been barnacles clung to the edges like they'd spent years submerged in an ocean.
Where the hell did these things come from? There's no ocean anywhere near here. At least I don't think there is.
