Foreverdaydreams
For three years, Stefanie Falkner has worked toward one thing: safety.
Four years after the fall of Wall Maria took everything from her, graduating near the top of her Cadet Corps finally offers her the future she has planned for herself: the Military Police, life behind the walls, and as much distance from the Titans as possible.
Safe. Predictable. Exactly what she wants.
Until, only days before graduation, a simple assignment sends her beyond the walls to deliver equipment to the Survey Corps-and straight into the orbit of Section Commander Hange Zoë.
Hange is everything Stefanie has spent years trying not to be: reckless, curious, impossible to silence and far too fascinated by the very creatures Stefanie would rather never see again. With Hange comes Moblit Berner, the chaos of the Survey Corps, and an entire world Stefanie had been perfectly content to judge from behind a wall.
What should have lasted only a few hours becomes the first crack in the future she thought she wanted. Because somewhere between arguments, experiments, dangerous expeditions and a friendship that begins becoming something much harder to ignore, Stefanie finds herself questioning whether safety and happiness were ever the same thing.
And the closer she grows to Hange, the harder it becomes to imagine returning to the life she planned without them.
Sometimes the safest place isn't behind the highest wall. Sometimes, it's simply where the sun finds us.