Chapter 1
"Offer up your hearts!"
Eun stood up straight, placing her closed fist over her heart. Her eyes stared forwards to no point, through the horizon. Her eyes caught sight of Eren in the row in front of her, fidgeting every now and then. She shifted her line of vision onto the commander, Keith.
Keith was pacing around, occasionally stopping to bark at a certain trainee. Eun watched with amused eyes as each trainee flinched in fear and shouted out their names in a high voice.
Pathetic.
As Armin shouted out his reply to Keith, the names of the trainees gathered in Eun's mind. There were too many, and most of them blurred together. However, some stuck to her mind, refusing to let go. Samuel. Connie. Marco. Mina. Jean. Thomas.
Eun's eyes hardened. She shouldn't have remembered those names.
She didn't want to remember them after they died to the titans.
Keith stomped to her row, glaring at all the trainees in turn. His sunken eyes met hers, piercing and foreboding. Instead of shrinking back and whimpering, like she would have once done, she straightened, meeting his yellow eyes.
Keith made a noise of disgust, about to turn towards the shivering boy next to her. But then a noise rang out; clear as day.
The sound of a bite taken out of a piece of food.
A potato, to be exact.
Eun's eyes widened as she turned, her onyx eyes fixating on the girl a few paces away from her, in the same row. The potato girl's brown ponytail rustled slightly as she turned around, her eyes wide as she took another bite from the potato clasped in her hand.
"Hey, you. What are you doing?" Keith's voice was low, almost a growl. The girl looked around, as if there was someone else Keith could have been talking to.
Then she took another bite out of the potato.
Keith's face twisted with rage, and Eun sighed silently, fixing her view back on the horizon.
They sure weren't going anywhere for a while.
"First, we'll evaluate what you already have! Anybody who is unable to do this can't even serve as a decoy! They will be sent to the frontier." Keith roared, extending a hand towards the towering wooden poles, wires hanging from the machines. This was supposed to serve as an evaluation for the trainee's balance, to test how capable they were with the 3D maneuver gear.
Eun felt herself being raised up, her feet lifting from the solid dirt. She didn't panic, as she normally would've. However, she couldn't deny the smallest twinge of the scared, frightened girl she had once been as she stared at the wires holding her to the wooden contraptions.
She swayed slightly, and Eun's eyes widened, immediately cursing at herself for being distracted. Keith analyzed her, but nodded. Her feet touched the ground, and Eun turned to see how Eren was doing.
He was hanging upside down, his face shocked and humiliated. Eun felt a sense of disappointment, turning away once more.
Sorry I abandoned you guys for so long! I had a lot of exams to take care of and it's been really chaotic lately ^^;; Well I hope you enjoy this chapter (Even though its really short... I promise to make future chapters longer~)!
Reviews are always appreciated ^~^
Ja ne~!