↳ Mara's parents were born in Marley, but Mara was born within the walls. She knew a lot of things about the world beyond the walls, one of them being that Titan Shifters were at fault for the fall of Wall Maria. The cause of so many deaths, includi...
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Chapter twenty five: 57th Expedition Beyond The Walls
Mara's pov:
The sound of neighs and thundering hooves filled the world around us, with the occasional whoosh from a smoke round or shout from a superior issuing orders.
My nerves jolted at the slightest movement from the tree line to our right, and every time a bird twittered I had to restrain myself from drawing my blades.
The older scouts only gazed at the looming trees with a stoney expression mastered from relentless training and battle.
Despite the forest of giant trees we galloped alongside having such a foreboding presence, I found myself yearning to enter the tree line and lose myself amongst the wynorrific. The more I stared at the imposing trees looming over us, the more I realised just how insignificant my existence was. The trees I stared at had great significance – they allowed us to breathe, had lived for hundreds of years already, and would live on for several hundred more without even the slightest hint of violence. And what was I? I was a sixteen year old girl from a town in the middle of nowhere, fighting in a futile war for something that would never be achieved. So what, exactly, was my petty existence compared to one of a grand tree like this? Did I even want to know? I doubted it.
"H-Hey, it looks like only the centre line went into the woods," Connie commented, a look of worried confusion written across his features, "What happened to the formation?" The question was directed at a stoic expression Mikasa, who rode next to him and just in front of me.
"It's gone." She replied in her usual monotone voice.
Knowing that Mikasa wasn't scared eased my nerves ever so slightly, but nowhere near enough to let me stop jumping at the slightest movement.
"The forest blocks our advance, so the left and right flanks will have to skirt the forest. We've lost our recon ability." She explained, making both me and Connie turn to her with anxious expressions dawning out features.
"Why didn't we change course to avoid the forest? Did Commander Erwin read the map wrong?" Connie finally spoke.
I doubt that a commander such as Erwin wouldn't just read a map wrong. No, he must have planned for us to come here – but, why?
"I don't know..." Mikasa replied, although I didn't have to pay much attention to see that she was just as suspicious as me, "Perhaps we tried too hard to avoid the threat on the right flank and ended up here..." She finished.
Right, the threat on the right flank... I need to know what it is! Surely they could have stopped a normal titan, even an Aberrant could be taken down easily enough. But this... this doesn't feel right at all...
