Tweets of birds followed by the warm feeling of the sun woke you up today. A most pleasant morning for a most unpleasant day. At least by your sister's standards. Yesterday your sister officially became queen and now she had all the responsibilities of being queen. You tried to share them as much as possible with her but she claimed 'This is my work Y/n!' and wouldn't let you help.
"It's been two weeks, are you sure the letter was delivered?" The queen sighed.
"Yes, your highness I'm sure."
"Commander Shadis, you said something about Shiganshina the other day right? It slipped my mind."
"Yes, your highness, they were attacked."
"Did they...win?" You asked, placing your teacup back onto its plate.
Shadis sighed.
"No, unfortunately. We haven't gotten word from any survivors..."
The queen covered her mouth in disbelief.
Marley has been getting closer and closer to conquering Eldia in the past two weeks with Trost and now Shiganshina as well. Almost every battle was won by Marley.
"We're losing the war, your highness, we have to get the jump on em' first." Floch crossed his arms and leaned against the doorway of the drawing room.
"I know, but it just seems so inhumane."
"You know what's inhumane? Our soldiers are dying like dogs with no identification because you know what they do, your highness?" Floch huffed. "They take our soldiers and feed them to their dogs and set the other bodies ablaze." His face appeared stoic as if he hadn't stepped out of line.
You covered your mouth as Historia forced back tears.
"Tori we can go somewhere private it's okay you don't need to-"
"I'm fine Y/n!" Historia raised her voice to you. "Floch," She stood up walking closer to him. "The only reason I haven't taken your title back is because you're smart when it comes to planning war. Don't pretend like I don't see your laziness when it comes to actual battles. Don't speak to me like that again unless you wish to join them." Floch looked to Historia then at you and walked out of the room.
"Remind me not to piss you off sheesh." Eren added, kicking his feet up on the coffee table.
"Shut up Eren."
Even though you were in Eldia for your sister you also had duties to attend to in other districts. You often went to meetings to discuss what was best for the different districts. This time you were staying in Stohess district to discuss poverty in a few Stohess villages.
"So we can spare only a certain amount for the villages because of the war, but we can allow some portions to be spent towards the soldiers."
"Sounds like a plan to me." Eren said while eating his apple and sitting in the windowsill of the Stohess council room.
"Why is he here?" You whispered to Rico keeping your mouth slightly closed so no one could read your lips.
"I'm not quite sure but he has something to do with Stohess."
"We should get wrapped up then." Rico stood up and grabbed her papers off the table.
Suddenly a loud bang followed by the sounds of ringing bells made Eren, a known slacker, stand up and throw his apple away.
"Your grace, come with me!" Rico grabbed your hand and led you down the stone hallway of the council building to a door. "Listen to me Y/n, you stay right in here and do not open the door until I knock four times, you got that?"
You gulped and looked at her frantically.
The roof was shaking to the point where rocks and dust were falling from it and in the distance you could hear war cries and gunshots.
"Y/n!"
"Yes yes I wont open the door until you knock four times!"
"Good now go down that stairwell and stay there okay."
"Okay..."
The sounds of gunshots and yells went on for a long time. It could have been an hour, thirty minutes or five you didn't know. But shortly after the gunshots all that was heard was silence. No gunshots, no yelling, nothing at all. Silence was a luxury in your opinion. It was peaceful and let you have time to read and think about your future without being disturbed. Silence was once a peaceful sound but now it was the sound of death.
The silence was broken by footsteps leading to the basement door and the sounds of whispers. Then followed the voice of Rico and four knocks. You ran to the door practically falling over your dress as you scrambled to unlock the locks.
There stood Rico accompanied by a slightly scuffed Eren, and a very beaten up Floch.
"Oh my that looks really bad Mr. Forster." You said, taking the scarf from around your head and wrapping it around Flochs arm to stop it from bleeding.
"That was a close call. We really can't have someone with your kinda power doing these meetings anymore. We need like an army to come with us." Eren laughed at the ironicy.
"Heh, yeah I guess so."
