Where blood remembers

- You're awake. -

The voice comes from the shadows - firm, deep, and carrying that tone that leaves no room for hesitation.

Nora flinches. She turns sharply, and sees him: a man standing beside the bed, his uniform perfectly pressed, the sleeves immaculate despite the lingering scent of dust and iron.
Gray eyes. Cold. Watchful.
The kind of gaze that weighs every word before it's spoken.

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Amid the ruins of a world that no longer knows peace, two souls meet by chance - a captain forged by silence and a girl without a past.
He lives by duty, she by questions.
And yet, something in their eyes recognizes the other, as if they had already been searching for one another in a forgotten time.
In her blood lies a sleeping mystery, and in his heart, a fear he dares not confess.
When the truth begins to awaken, nothing will ever be the same again.

An alternative story based on Attack on Titan universe