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Loud as Eren can be, there are moments the world around him falls entirely still.
It’s like everything stops. The wind. The birds. The rustle of the woods around them. All sounds but the stuttering kick of Levi’s heart. And Levi stops too.
He doesn’t have to look up to see Eren’s expression in these moments. A slender, grotesque giant. Grin like a skeleton, eyes the entire opposite.
Life is in them.
Life made of green green green and sun-sparked fires, shadowed by thought as his contemplative frown directs towards the sky. As though Eren has endless dreams which’s paths are only up there. As though his treelet-surpassing shoulders don’t bring him close enough.
His hands are relaxed at his side as he turns. His hair wafts in the only hint of a breeze Levi can make out.
The Titan grunts. A deep rumble rippling through the air and touching Levi’s stomach as he falls deeper into all-revolving marvel.
You coming?
Time slips back. The sounds return. The scents of moss-dewed resin and a dying year.
Levi kicks off the tree and leaps. Leaps towards what never will be his.