[At least he’s slowly, begrudgingly graduated from calling Eren a “thing” to “bastard” to, finally, by name. There are significantly more important topics at play here, but that feels like a small… victory? concession? Even if Levi’s phrasing the death like some rabid euthanization.
[Whatever.]
You’re right, [still guarded, but a step down of her own;] anything that happens here…
[Well. That’s certainly what she wants to think.
[Eren didn’t want to go back; she can believe that. Aubrey’s assumed he just… didn’t remember. Got caught up in it all, maybe. What’s more crushing, the idea that he forgot just as involuntarily as he left, or that he remembered and…
[Ugh. Forget it.]
We’ve been here a long time. I know he’s dead. [And, with a quick pulse check:] Even if he doesn’t look it.
“We,” by the way, [and finally, an answer, if only so Levi doesn’t pursue the other topic,] being us, Armin, Mikasa, Reiner… Bertholdt once, too. [Quieter:] And someone I know.
no subject
[At least he’s slowly, begrudgingly graduated from calling Eren a “thing” to “bastard” to, finally, by name. There are significantly more important topics at play here, but that feels like a small… victory? concession? Even if Levi’s phrasing the death like some rabid euthanization.
[Whatever.]
You’re right, [still guarded, but a step down of her own;] anything that happens here…
[Well. That’s certainly what she wants to think.
[Eren didn’t want to go back; she can believe that. Aubrey’s assumed he just… didn’t remember. Got caught up in it all, maybe. What’s more crushing, the idea that he forgot just as involuntarily as he left, or that he remembered and…
[Ugh. Forget it.]
We’ve been here a long time. I know he’s dead. [And, with a quick pulse check:] Even if he doesn’t look it.
“We,” by the way, [and finally, an answer, if only so Levi doesn’t pursue the other topic,] being us, Armin, Mikasa, Reiner… Bertholdt once, too. [Quieter:] And someone I know.