[Levi nods, looking a bit lost himself. Dreams, stories, laughter - grief and pain wouldn't exist without them. If there was no happiness left in his world, then Eren destroying it wouldn't have meant anything. He laughed too, dreamt too, told stories, drank, broke bread. It wasn't enough, but to pretend that it didn't exist at all - he could kick him again for that.
[Levi aches for one of Hange's stupid jokes, or the way Erwin blushed after only one drink. More than once, he found himself pausing outside the Scouts' barracks doors on his way to a lecture, momentarily halted by the laughter of the people inside - kids playing truth or dare or laughing about their superiors.]
no subject
[Levi aches for one of Hange's stupid jokes, or the way Erwin blushed after only one drink. More than once, he found himself pausing outside the Scouts' barracks doors on his way to a lecture, momentarily halted by the laughter of the people inside - kids playing truth or dare or laughing about their superiors.]
There has to be something to hold onto.
[What does he have left?]