Levi sat in his office, not practically looking at anything. He thought about the meeting where they'd been informed about the titans breaking thru the outer wall thru Shiganshina District; of all the places. The amount of dead hadn't been established, but they all knew there would be countless of lives that been taken in the attack. Only a handful of boats had had the time to evacuate before the colossal titan had broken thru the other wall. The Troast district was where the survivors had come to and a refuge camp would be set up there until they'd gotten records of the survivors and could help them to establish new homes. Erwin had watched him during the meeting, surely trying to figure out his thoughts. Levi tsked as he leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes.
He'd heard something move in the pantry and silently walked over to it, opening the doors. On the floor a girl sat her neat hands pressed over her mouth and her wide forest green eyes looking up at him in fear and panic. Still she didn't scream or make a move; she just stared up at him. He just watched her for a moment until someone speaking made him look up.
"Did you find her?"
"No, must have escaped thru the window." He closed the pantry and nodded towards the open window.
"Than you stay behind, she'll come back, she has nowhere to go and when she figure that out she comes back, and when she does you'll kill her boy." He walked out of the kitchen and the tavern to watch the others leave, making sure they were gone before he turned back inside and walked to the pantry. Opening the doors again the girls eyes once again shoot up to look at him, still she did not make a sound or move. Her hands this time was down from her face and he could see her mouth was slightly opened, breathing slowly as she seemed to try to calm down even when being face to face with him. He watched her for a moment, wondering why he felt the need to let her live. There was nothing special about her from what he could tell; she was an average underground kid. And she looked like the average teenagers, expect from being shorter and cleaner, and of course calmer about the situation. But nothing of that made her stand out and he couldn't put his finger on it expect from that something about her made him hesitate and decided not to kill her.
A knock on the door made him open his eyes again. The image of the first time he meet Valerie still in his mind as he told the person to come in.
"Enter!" He wasn't surprised to see Erwin walking inside. He tsked, knowing what the man wanted. "I don't want to hear it." Erwin walked over to the chair opposite the desk and sat down. He was silent for a moment, looking down at his folded hands.
"She saw you that night." The words weren't what he'd expected and he lifted an eyebrow not following what Erwin was talking about. Erwin looked up at him. "The first of May celebration." He remembered and sighed. "I visited her some days after and she was very intent on knowing about your well-being, but she was searching for another answer."
"It doesn't matter." Levi said and stood from his chair. Erwin watched him.
"Why?" He questioned. "Do you have that little of faith in her?" This made the shorter man look at him, a mixture of emotions in his eyes.
"Don't." Erwin stood from the chair.
"I won't." He answered before he left the office. Levi breathed out the moment he closed the door and slammed his fist on the desk which cracked slightly at the impact. Sitting down in his chair again he put his head in his hands. Of course he didn't have that little faith in her, but this wasn't nothing like surviving in the underground. He'd seen what the titans could do to trained soldiers. Honestly he didn't know what to believe at the moment. He moved his hands out of his face, breathing out; she was alive, she had to be!