Inside the mess hall, the cadets kept silent for a few minutes, gazing between the thrown door and their superiors' surprisingly quiet table... the environment was a heavy one due to both tension and a gigantic amount of questions that lingered in the air...
"Commander, I have a question!" someone, Jean, broke the silence. "Who is that woman, after all?"
Curiosity washed over most people in the room and every cadet turned to look at the higher ups.
"That, cadet Kirstein, is a long story, but I can tell you that that woman is one of the best soldiers this division has ever seen." Erwin stated matter-of-factly. "She was part of the same training squad as Hanji and Mike. Finding each other in a similar level of madness..."
"After having heard Hanji's passionate woes about titans, they began talking and somehow became the best of friends; most people deemed them utterly crazy and avoided them due to both their pranks and their apparently completely unreasonable and unrealistic minds. Even so, Silvia was the first classified of her training squad and Hanji was the third." Mike proceeded. "It's no surprise that others tossed them even further away when they decided to join the Survey Corps instead of the Military Police... In here, Hanji became part of the science squad and Silvia became part of a squad specialized in killing abnormals."
Noticing what part of the story had been reached, Levi silently disappeared from the cantine without anyone's notice.
Ness was now the one to continue:
"A few years later, Levi and his two best friends joined..."
"Speaking of which, where's the corporal?" Eren interrupted.
"He doesn't wish to revive certain memories!" Ness declared. "So, the three joined the Survey Corps. They were incontinent and it took a lot to discipline them, on the other hand, Farlan and Isabel warmed up to their 'guide', Silvia, and Levi didn't take long to follow on their steps."
At the corporal's last mention, whispers raised from the cadets about Levi's and Silvia's relationship.
"Unfortunately..." the commander spoke up once again. "On Corporal Levi's first mission outside the walls, Farlan and Isabel died at the hands of an abnormal, and Silvia disappeared and was given as dead, only to recently prove us wrong!"
"And about her family, her house?" "Which wall is she from?" "Is her family dead?" All these and many other questions raised from the impatient cadets.
Catching everyone's attention one more time, Erwin made his last declaration of the night:
"Not much is known about Cadet Soares' past, if you are so keen on finding out about that, then you will have to ask her or Hanji, the only other person who knows. Dismissed!"