[Really, Erwin, he thinks about you all the time. Erwin has been the closest person Levi's had for a long time, the only person he's ever trusted as deeply as he does. He'd follow him no matter what, and not even Ariel can change that. Here, it's sometimes a struggle to focus on anything else, and it's not even just unbidden thoughts of sex.
The trouble, really, is that Ariel pushes other, more dangerous thoughts to the surface and makes it even more difficult to push them back down. It's so much easier to have other life and death things to worry about in their own world, but here the distraction isn't so pronounced. Erwin is right there, all the time, in closer quarters than they've ever shared.
It takes an immense amount of concentration to not focus on the parts of their bodies that touch as he opens the book to the designated page and reads the poem.
When he finishes, he lets it linger in the air a moment, then closes the book.]
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The trouble, really, is that Ariel pushes other, more dangerous thoughts to the surface and makes it even more difficult to push them back down. It's so much easier to have other life and death things to worry about in their own world, but here the distraction isn't so pronounced. Erwin is right there, all the time, in closer quarters than they've ever shared.
It takes an immense amount of concentration to not focus on the parts of their bodies that touch as he opens the book to the designated page and reads the poem.
When he finishes, he lets it linger in the air a moment, then closes the book.]
...reminded me a bit of home.