[Eren can't argue with self-preservation. All he's ever known is self-preservation, but when he says that it's his fault, he isn't talking about the mask he wears.
[They're face to face, and Eren can't look anywhere else. There's something wild in the barely restrained pain on his face. Without meaning to, he grips Maruki tighter.]
But it is my fault. [He can barely hear himself. He blinks and sees endless, endless, endless cycles.
[His mouth is hanging open. It takes him a while to pull it closed again.]
oh no
[They're face to face, and Eren can't look anywhere else. There's something wild in the barely restrained pain on his face. Without meaning to, he grips Maruki tighter.]
But it is my fault. [He can barely hear himself. He blinks and sees endless, endless, endless cycles.
[His mouth is hanging open. It takes him a while to pull it closed again.]
All of it. Not just the Rumbling. All...of it.