[She bites her tongue, physically. The faceless number is a bit less faceless now. Loss isn’t a stranger to her; to any of them, really, much as the scale shifts.
[That it matters has never been—should never be—up for question.]
[Aubrey is quiet for a while; a surrender, in silence. She would’ve agreed in a heartbeat, once. Yet Eren’s breathing is steady, and if she lost him again....
[Ever the contradiction. Maybe that’s atonement, a new kind of pain; not the dread of what he’ll do, but the reckoning with what he’s done. Love didn’t change his actions; his actions haven’t changed the love.
[She watches him sleep, for a while. It’s so dark....]
[Finally, to Levi:] Sorry.
[Soft, and somehow more pathetic out loud. But true.]
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[She bites her tongue, physically. The faceless number is a bit less faceless now. Loss isn’t a stranger to her; to any of them, really, much as the scale shifts.
[That it matters has never been—should never be—up for question.]
[Aubrey is quiet for a while; a surrender, in silence. She would’ve agreed in a heartbeat, once. Yet Eren’s breathing is steady, and if she lost him again....
[Ever the contradiction. Maybe that’s atonement, a new kind of pain; not the dread of what he’ll do, but the reckoning with what he’s done. Love didn’t change his actions; his actions haven’t changed the love.
[She watches him sleep, for a while. It’s so dark....]
[Finally, to Levi:] Sorry.
[Soft, and somehow more pathetic out loud. But true.]