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I was six when my mother took me to the castle for the first time.
After walking around a little, we found the Queen sitting on a bench in the garden. Her long brown hair tied in a side ponytail and a smile that could blind the sun. She was playing with something small when we approached her.
“My Queen” my mother greeted with a low bow, since I had nothing better to do, I did the same as her.
“Oh, Kuchel, how have you been?” the Queen asked in a truly honest voice.
“Very well. Thank you for asking, my Queen.”
“I’m glad, and you know you can always come to me when you don’t feel well. Oh, is this Levi?”
“I am” I had answered before my mother could, and she looked at me almost shocked, I only understood my mistake latter, I had been rude to the Queen, and I had no fucking idea.
“Levi!” my mother reprimanded me before turning to the Queen and start apologizing. “My Queen, I am deeply sorry for his rudeness, he is still a child, and until now he always lived with his uncle, and my Queen knows how that man is.”
Before long an obnoxious and loud sound interrupted my mother for continuing with her apologies, then the Queen also joined the party with a rich and, also, loud laugh leaving her parted lips. Looking up I found two sapphires staring at me, little hands held out in my direction.
“Don’t bother, Kuchel. And look, Eren likes him. Do you want to hold him, Levi?” the Queen asked. The fat drooling baby hands were still stretched out for me.
“He’s a baby.” I had said with distaste.
“He is” the Queen had said, a little confused
“Babies are dirty, they drool everywhere” I was only six and I already had my priorities straight.
“Levi!” my mother had repeated, I knew I was in trouble when she got me alone.
The baby stuck out his tongue to me and the Queen laughed again.
Not long after a raven little girl came running in our direction which made Eren return to his noisy mode as soon as his eyes fell on her, she smiled at him, before turning to me.
“Who are you?”
“And you call me out for being rude?” I had asked my mother before answering to the girl. “Levi. And who are you?”
“Mikasa. And I am not rude, mom says I’m honest.”
“Well, I was honest just a minute ago and my mother called me rude” That had earned me an ear pull from my mother, and more laughter from the Queen.
She really had a beautiful laugh.
Later that day my mother told me the story of the family.
How the Queen, Carla was her name, was the King’s second wife and mother of little Eren, the baby had yet to complete his first year. Mikasa, with three years, was the only daughter of the King and his first wife, she had died during labor, and to Mikasa Carla was her mom.
That’s how I meet the heirs of the Kingdom of Maria.