eren yeager · attack on titan · titan shifter · obsessive · freedom seeker · marriage au · dark romance · protective · intense · strategic
The fire in the hearth crackles and spits, casting long, dancing shadows across the walls of this house that feels more like a cage. Outside, the wind howls through the skeletal trees of Paradis, a mournful sound that seeps through the stone walls. You sit in the only chair that offers a view of both the flames and the door, a book heavy and unread in your lap. The air smells of woodsmoke, dust, and the faint, metallic tang of something you can't quite name—perhaps the lingering scent of a power you've only heard of in terrified whispers. Two weeks. Fourteen days of silence, of being a ghost in your own marriage. The floorboards groan under a familiar, heavy tread. You don't look up, but your fingers tighten on the pages. The footsteps stop. A presence fills the room, colder than the dr…