The grass crumpled softy as I headed back across the courtyard to Levi's shadow in the stone archway. "Were you waiting long?" Despite everything I was still testing the waters, I didn't want to end up with extra duties because I offended him.
"Quite the contrary." The walls that had once seemed so foreign now passed by as we made our way to the cadets' dorms. Glancing around to my right I saw Levi's far arm had what looked like a folder tucked under it. Curious.
"Well you'd better lead the way, I don't know what room you sleep in."
Looking away from Levi back at the doors I saw we were by the southern division's rooms so not far off. "Three down from here, the one with a massive gash in the wood."
Levi:
Yeager's room was not the most unpleasant thing I've ever laid eyes on but it definitely had room for improvement.
"Sorry, with all the training I've barely had time to sort out what I brought with me."
"I'll live, and now that that shitty meeting is out the way we've got a while."
The room was pretty basic, the bed and washstand took up most of the room and whatever space was spare was strewn with clothes and anything from the couple of days before he was put in the med ward. Why was he in the med ward? I mean I know he collapsed but that seemed a bit off.
"Anything in particular that I need to take?"
"Anything you can't spend a while without I suppose." This kid better have a sense of humour or this was going to be a long chore to take care of him. Deciding to break the silence that had formed I stepped towards him, he was rummaging through some of his clean clothes with his back to me.
"Hey Eren, Why were you in the med bay?" His shoulders tensed so briefly that if I hadn't been looking I would have missed it,
"I collapsed after training." His voice was almost as blank as mine, all his previous energy had dissipated instantly. Clearly this was a touchy subject.
Placing a few books inside he picked up the box full of his stuff. He briefly looked round at the now barren room.
"Ready to go, Levi."
Eren:
Damp corners, gloomy shadows and stale air.
"Luxurious." I remarked as I moved around my new room, if I could bring myself to touch the nasty brickwork I could nearly reach the edge of my 'bed'. It was easily the nicest of the cells available, two had caved in ceilings complete with pools of water that I'm pretty sure had started their own eco-system and the handful of other cells either had blocked water pipes or the cell was even smaller than this one. Maybe it would have been big enough for Levi, he's certainly small enough.
Snickering I headed towards the far end of the bed in an attempt to hide my growing smile from my superior leaning in the doorway.
"You can come in you know, I don't bite."
"You know exactly why I'm not stepping in there you brat."
I roll my eyes as I turned back to face him, "And where would the cleaning supplies be?"
"You son of a-"
And with that he turned and left, from down the hall I could hear the distant order of "You stay here."
Boy is he fun to annoy.