PSL / MEME CONTINUATION

[abandonhumanity]

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine
and rage the likes of which you would not believe.
If I cannot satisfy the one,
I will indulge the other.

Comments

2/2

[abandonhumanity]

[To Aubrey:] I've survived worse.

[To Armin:] She doesn't know what that is.

[headhooligan]

I do, actually. [Where’d it go, anyway?] Armin showed me! He makes it look easy—and I know, [to the showoff himself,] it’s been years. Gotta admit, you are pretty strong.

1/1

[abandonhumanity]

He showed you? [There's a little glare, more confused than anything.]

When?

[headhooligan]

Oh, that was a while ago…

[Besides the ever-strange way time ebbs in and out of consciousness here, so much has changed.] Before… the name thing. With Mikasa?

[A side glance to Armin, with that; he’d caught Mikasa up at some point before then. Have they spoken since…?]

1/2

[abandonhumanity]

[A moment ago, Eren had been distracted by an "I should have been the one to show her that" sort of jealousy.

[Then she says Mikasa's name. His heart drops. His face follows.]

Armin.

[He turns his attention to the blond.]

Is she still here?

2/2

[rollcharisma]

[A confession, pained:]

I'm...not sure.

I'd think so, since we are.

[A glance at Aubrey.]

I don't guess you might have seen her...?

[headhooligan]

[And how the mood drops. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Better with this topic than any; it at least seems to Aubrey that Mikasa is, back in their world, still alive.]

No, I haven’t. But we talked with Reiner, so…

[A silent agreement, with what Armin thinks. (And forgetting she hasn’t outright, voluntarily informed Armin of Reiner’s presence before.) Aubrey wants to agree, anyway; it’d be nice to have stronger confirmation than correlation. Just another unfortunate quirk of this world....]

1/2 keywords btw

[rollcharisma]

Reiner...?

[A cautious glance at Eren.]

Really?

2/2

[abandonhumanity]

[But Eren isn't thinking of Reiner now.

[He isn't so much looking at Aubrey as he is past her. He says, quietly:]

She's the one that had to do it.

the most serious icon for the most serious number

[headhooligan]

[Had… to…?

[Aubrey finds her eyes drifting to his neck. That flash of light; a fresh memory.]

[Last Aubrey saw her, Mikasa leaned on him; Eren, himself, defeated; and all three of them drained, bound.]

[She reaches idly for Eren’s hand. Softly, but no less audible:]

Do you… want to see her?

1/1

[abandonhumanity]

[It’s a tone that could only be owned by Mikasa Ackerman.]

More than anything…

[headhooligan]

[A hand over her heart, then. Not their salute, but a promise all the same.]

Then I’ll find her.

[abandonhumanity]

[There's a mighty cry above them - hundreds of seabirds, as if out of nowhere, flying across the sky, casting the shadows of their freedom all across the water.]