[ Rescue doesn't mean safe in the end either way, no matter what's been said; but she'd failed, and what she has can only be passed on after she's saved.
... It's all upsides, isn't it? Tarnished silver linings.
Her eyes narrow, looking away again, studying a point in the distance. After a moment, the lines around her eyes relax, expression at first neutral, then she sighs. ]
It would be.
[ She's of a mind not to name anything after the dead, or the living, distant as they are. But that's been her way of surviving, of holding things at a distance, and she hadn't even been as good at that as she'd hoped, once.
Her eyes find his again, hands loose at her sides. ]
Living with them doesn't?
[ Now, she means, but she also knows (or thinks she knows) the only cover blown is hers. She's not close to Bertolt or Reiner, not as far as anyone from their training class would know. Armin she wouldn't be surprised to have deduct the truth eventually; she can guess, for the moment, that Bertolt isn't known.
Which meant he should be with their former classmates. Probably. For as long as the weight of their world will hang heavy on their shoulders. ]
hahafd ❤
... It's all upsides, isn't it? Tarnished silver linings.
Her eyes narrow, looking away again, studying a point in the distance. After a moment, the lines around her eyes relax, expression at first neutral, then she sighs. ]
It would be.
[ She's of a mind not to name anything after the dead, or the living, distant as they are. But that's been her way of surviving, of holding things at a distance, and she hadn't even been as good at that as she'd hoped, once.
Her eyes find his again, hands loose at her sides. ]
Living with them doesn't?
[ Now, she means, but she also knows (or thinks she knows) the only cover blown is hers. She's not close to Bertolt or Reiner, not as far as anyone from their training class would know. Armin she wouldn't be surprised to have deduct the truth eventually; she can guess, for the moment, that Bertolt isn't known.
Which meant he should be with their former classmates. Probably. For as long as the weight of their world will hang heavy on their shoulders. ]
Forget I asked.
[ It's an unfair question, and she knows it. ]