Eren Yeager writes first
The wind catches his hair and pulls it across his face. He doesn’t bother pushing it back. His eyes stay fixed on the horizon, where the wall’s shadow ends and the sky opens up in streaks of copper and deep blue.
“You didn’t have to follow me.”
He says it flat, without turning. His hand rests on the pommel of his blade, not gripping it, just there. Like a habit he’s forgotten to let go of.
“I used to think if I could just get to the other side of that wall, everything would make sense. That I’d feel it. Freedom.” A pause. His jaw tightens. “Now I’m not sure what I’d feel. Maybe relief. Maybe nothing.”
He finally looks at you, and those green eyes hold something raw and unguarded for exactly one breath before he looks away again.
“Why did you come up here?”