I beat that block! I beat it with a bat and a stick! Yay

At first we work in silence. It made sense for me to work close to where Petra was cleaning tables because my clean chairs had to go on her clean tables. We are all wearing rubber gloves (pink) and cleaning aprons (black) over our clothes so that when we had to kneel, we didn't soil our clothes further.

It wasn't long before Petra stated humming and Gunther started tapping his foot as he swept up the food. Eld worked behind Gunther, scraping up whatever the broom couldn't sweep up. And so we worked to the humming and the tapping until Petra got tired of it and we fell back into an awkward silence.

"Did anyone else notice the bags under the Captains' eyes?" Petra suddenly pipes up.

"So I wasn't imaging things," Gunther says from where he paused mid sweep.

"He looked really tired, as though he didn't sleep last night,"

The penny drops.

"Wait, he sleeps? He told me he has insomnia; he was awake the whole night. It felt like he was watching me," I mention nonchalantly.

"Oh no," comes Petra's dejected tone.

I hear the other three males sigh sadly as well.

"What is it? What did I do?"

"Not you Eren, you didn't do anything," Petra's downcast eyes send ice cold fear through my system.

"Should we tell him?"

"I think we should. He deserves to know. And he is living with Levi," Eld reasons.

I look at Oluo, our eyes meet for a split second before he nods. "Eight hundred years ago, when I was still a hatchling, Captain Levi had three household members of his own. Their names were Isabel, Farlan and Annie. They were all pretty close and they had battled the Creators on a number of occasions. Isabel had fiery red hair and wings that made her look like a phoenix with a human form. And that was her nickname. The Phoenix," he smiles a little as he describes her. There is a painful glint in his eye, as if remembering her hurt him.

"Farlan had silvery blond hair and wings and he moved at exceptionally high speeds, like lightning. He was dubbed Thunderbolt. Annie had dark blond hair and wings, since your hair and wings match in colour, so she was called Sandstorm. And of course, our dark captain was called the Reaper, the bringer of death," how appropriate.

"Levi and his household lived right at the top of the tower, partly for thrill of living so high up, seeing so far and partly because it was convenient. They left and returned at all hours and they didn't want to bother anyone. They lived like that for ages, until Levi was betrayed," his head bows slightly and his jaw tenses.

"One night, after taking a sleeping draught to help him rest, Levi's household members were kidnapped right from under his nose. Commander Erwin had just come in from a mission when he spotted Isabel and Farlan being carried off," I feel on edge as I imagine a storm raging around the tower as Levi slept and his friends were carried off into the night. I also see how the commander would swoop in on his great wings to save the two angels.

"Commander went to their aid, only to have Annie rip off his right arm and wing in a battle that no one should have survived. But Erwin did," the tears in Oluo's eyes as he tells the story grips my gut in an icy grasp. My minds' eye sees the commander battling some faceless she-devil who is strong enough to tear his arm off; I can almost hear him scream in excruciating pain as his wing was detached from his body. The metallic scent is so overpowering I can taste it on my tongue and I can see the blood leaving his body.

I suddenly felt sick to the core. I curse my overactive imagination. That's why Levi didn't want a sleeping pill…

"When he woke up from his drug induced sleep, and he had been told what had happened, he swore that he would never touch anything that would make him sleep again. He has had this mentality that he has to be aware and awake at all times. He claims that he has to stay focused,"

Silence…

"He searched for them for months, you know," Petra says with a quiver in her voice." And when he finally found them, they were unrecognisable," Petra gulps as she retells how their bodies had been mangled.

How their wings had been missing.

How they had died slowly.

Now I really want to throw up.

I suddenly realise that I have put Levi in a terrible position. He told his team mates to train me so that I could defend myself against something like this. He doesn't trust me enough to sleep around me. Not like I have done anything to earn his trust.

"Why?" I ask with my head bowed low, chin almost resting against my chest.

"Huh?"

"Why did Annie do it? Why did Levi take me in as a household member?"

"We wish we knew," Gunther says seriously.
His eyes cloud over and he watches me suspiciously.