𝔇𝔢𝔣𝔦𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 (𝔏𝔢𝔳𝔦 𝔵 ℜ𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔯)

LXXXVI - How One Approaches

"I don't like repeating myself." Were the last words he said before walking out and closing the door behind him.

***

It had been four hours since Levi's visit. 

I remained in bed, stuck in here until Historia's coronation tomorrow morning. For most of those four hours, it was only my thoughts and I. It irked me, having questions that Levi had the answers to and I wasn't even allowed to leave the room to seek him out.

Since the day I realised I care about you in a way that's more intimate than just friends!

I let out a groan, bringing a hand up to my face and pinching the bridge of my nose, annoyed at both myself and the raven. The bracelet dangled in front of my eyes for a short moment, my eyes following each small swing before it came to a complete stop. I sigh, dropping my hand back down to the bed and tipping my head back against the wall. I stared at the ceiling aimlessly, furrowing my eyebrows in frustration.

"How the fuck are you going to dump that on me and then leave straight after, idiot?" I mutter to myself. The door to the room opened, my head rolling to the side to lazily gaze at who opened it, a little disappointed to see it was Hange instead of the Captain. "Han." I acknowledge, her lips parting as she gave a large toothy smile.

"Afternoon you beauty." She greeted, closing the door and walking across the room toward me with my gaze following after her. "How are you feeling?" I let out a sharp amused exhale through my nose, lifting my palm up and looking at it, a bandage securely tied around it from the wound I had gotten from the interior brigade compound.

"Better than I did. What about you? How far in did that anchor go?" I ask, looking at her right shoulder, bandages barely visible below the collar of her shirt. She shrugged with a smile.

"You managed to save me from the worst of it." She says, gratitude accompanying her tone. "Thank you, Sunshine. I'm truly thankful." I only give a small smile, averting my gaze and fixing it on the bump my feet had made at the foot of the bed. She furrowed her eyebrows, eyeing me carefully with concern.

"You wouldn't happen to know where Levi is, would you?" I ask, a lot more hesitation in the sentence than I thought there would've been. Did I want to talk to him this soon? It was clear he didn't want to, but I'd rather talk about it sooner than later. Sort out whatever this was. My eyes dragged up to meet Hange's, watching as her mouth opened to answer my question.

"He's surveying the chapel with a few other soldiers. Well, what's left of the chapel." She informs, taking a seat at the edge of my bed. "You've been asleep for quite some while. It's nearly dusk now." She said pulling my shirt to the side, exposing my bandaged puncture wound and checking it over.

"Dusk of which day?" I ask with a skeptical tone in my voice, tilting my head to the side slightly to help with her observation. Her hand retreated back to her side. 

"Oh, same day, don't worry! You weren't with us for about ten hours, we were escorted all the way to Orvud where that huge titan was heading. But that titan was Rod Reiss, and his titan actually was bigger than the colossal!" She began explaining, and to get my mind off my conversation with Levi, I sat there and listened.

"So we got to Orvud district and they had me and you escorted straight to the infirmary while Erwin and Levi and the others all devised a plan to eliminate the threat, which was of course something amazing that included explosions and all that business. So from what I've heard, Eren transformed into his titan and threw a massive net of gunpowder barrels into the titans mouth and blew him up into chunks of titan anatomy throughout the entire district! But get this, the titan still wasn't dead until the nape was properly disposed of. So Historia ended up being the one to find the nape and sliced it mid air before she plummeted into a wagon of something soft, I can't remember what they said it was, and then she declared her rule over the walls as the one true heir to the throne! Man, we missed out on so much today." She took a deep breath before plopping into a lying position across my legs, arms spread out and her eyes aimlessly wandering the ceiling.