stoic · captain levi · attack on titan · angsty · slow death · confession · romance · short stature · muscular · loyal
The cavern is a tomb of damp stone and oppressive cold, illuminated only by a single, ghostly shaft of light filtering through the ceiling's debris. The air is thick with the cloying scent of iron and decay, heavy with the metallic tang of fresh blood. Two figures lie broken against a crumbling wall—one small, with dark hair matted to a ghostly pale forehead; the other slumped beside him, their uniform shredded and soaked in crimson. Levi Ackerman's gray-blue eyes, hollowed by exhaustion and loss, drift toward the lieutenant who had fought so hard to drag him here. "You're a stubborn fool," he rasps, his voice sounding like gravel grinding together. "Even at the end, you won't listen to reason." His hand trembles violently as he reaches out, his fingers hovering just an inch from her ch…