Attack On Titan - Within The Walls

Small Blade - Within The Walls (4)

Eren Jäger

Male Group, 02-08-2020

It's the next day and the sun is rising above the walls. Levi has just returned from some kind of run outside the walls and he's now showing me the entire field inside Wall Sina.

He's walking a few steps in front of me and says something about the small buildings once in a while. He almost showed me the entire field and we're now walking towards a part of the walls.

At first I don't get why, but when we get closer I see words are written into the part of the wall. Levi takes a few steps closer and then stops walking. "These are the names of the people who died in here," he quietly says.

I open my mouth and stare at the wall, there are many names on there. Carved in with some kind of blade. Some names carved in bigger than others.

"Who were they?" I ask, but Levi doesn't reply.

I look at the wall, there are many names on there. Thomas, Moses, Miche, Boris, Rashad, Dieter, Keiji, all names of people who died within these walls. I decide to ask Levi about the boy whose name is carved in the biggest.

"Who's Farlan?" I ask.

Levi stays quiet as always, but when I look at him I see pure fear on his face. When he notices that I'm looking at him his expression turns neutral again.

"It's... He was good with ODM gear." Levi looks away again and for a split second I'm sure to see tears appear in his eyes.

This Farlan certainly was more important to Levi than Armin, Reiner, Jean, Marco and the other guys will ever be.

Before I'm able to ask more about this person, Levi excuses himself and walks away from me. Because I don't know what to do I sit down on the grass, looking at the wall.

Gordon, Tomas, Abel, Peer, Gelgar, Henning, Jurgen, Ivan. Who are these people? How did they die? Why do all these names sound familiar?

"Hi, Eren," a voice says and someone takes a seat next to me on the grass. "I see that Levi showed you this part of the wall?"

I turn my head to see who it is. It's Armin, apparently he doesn't know what to do either, because he leans back onto the grass and sadly smiles at me.

"Yeah, but he won't tell me anything about who those people were."

"Well, most of them I didn't know myself," Armin admits. "But you have to understand that Levi was the first one to arrive here when he was fifteen, he has known all of these people. Most of them for at least one to two years."

Was Levi the first one to arrive? He probably was terrified all on his own, without his memories.

I don't know what to say, so I say nothing.

"Who did you ask him about?" Armin asks and he glances at me. "Maybe I can tell you something about that person."

"I asked him who Farlan was."

Armin looks away from me. "I get why he didn't answer. You probably stirred up some memories he'd rather forget."

"What? Why?"

"Well, Farlan was the second person to arrive. Levi and he became real good friend throughout the years. They ruled the place together, back then Levi was quite a great ruler of the group. But half a year ago Farlan got attacked by a Titan while doing a daily run. Levi tried saving him, took him back within Wall Sina, but Farlan already was gone. Farlan's death broke him."

Now I understand why Levi always looks so pissed. He doesn't want to befriend anyone or even care about someone. This isn't the kind of life to care about people, because everyone dies.

This is just a cruel world.