Left, right, left, right... Swing, climb, slip, catch. Eren made his way up the side of the building. He was about 15 meters in the air now. The building was tall, roughly 20 meters in height. Just a few more meters to go... Natalie was watching helplessly from the ground, her heart seizing tightly in her chest as she begged Eren mentally not to fall. A large black spider scuttled out of a small crack and scurried across Eren's hand, making him jump and he very nearly fell to the ground. His stomach turned like it does when you are asleep and dream of falling, but this time he felt it from real life falling. He dropped about a foot but luckily there was a section of scaffolding just below him and he landed on a damp wooden plank. He pulled himself up the slippery metal of the creaking scaffolding, the cold poles burning his hands. Finally, Eren took a step onto the roof and the wind blew through his matted hair. He took a deep breath, the far more fresh but cold air making a beautiful change to the manky air from down in the alleyways. He looked back down over the edge and immediately regretted it, taking a number of steps backwards in a hurry. Wow. He was high up; this was quite scary really. He looked up at the grey sky. The snow that had been falling had stopped now and the roofs were covered in a thin layer of snow. There had obviously not been as much snow round here. Taking in his surroundings, Eren realised they really WERE in a maze. Various sized buildings obscured his view of any actually normal buildings showing proper society. Poor Levi... He really had lived in the dumps. How shit must he have felt to have wanted to come back here! He must really have hated Eren - No! No pessimism! Eren shook the thoughts off. He couldn't linger on those ideas now, he needed to stay focused on getting Levi and Natalie out.

Picking a route, he started carefully walking across the roof. Leaving footprints, Eren left a trail of ruined snow. He continued to leave the prints as he crossed several other roofs. This way he would be able to find his way back. Eren carefully picked his way over slippery slabs of black slate and cracking, copper coloured bricks, stained and weathered with age. He went for about half an hour, trying to get out of this maze. At one point he someone managed to end up where he had been before, but he corrected himself and took a different route. He drew a large X with the spray paint on the wrong route so he knew not to go that way again. Natalie must be so worried... But this was the only way. Eren continued to make sure his steps left noticeable tracks as he headed, exhausted, over the roofs of the desperate area of town. His hair was an even more unruly mess than usual and was covered with silt and grime. It was sweaty also. His face was red and blotchy through effort and cold and his clothes were dirty and ripped in some places. Feet aching, and throat sore, Eren continued to fight through. A car horn suddenly honked quietly and Eren snapped his head up from where he was painting another marker for a wrong direction. He looked around with wide eyes. He'd done it. He'd got to the edge of this dreadful place! He ran across the top of a building in a frenzy. He skidded and slipped, nearly tumbling from the edge. He saved himself, hitting his toe on the wall and it throbbed painfully, but he got right on up again and carried on rushing. He stopped at the edge of a building and looked down at the streets below. He had never been so happy to see cars, and traffic lights, and roads, and busy annoying pedestrians... He couldn't wait to get Levi and Natalie out there too. Turning on his heel, Eren ran back the way he came. As he ran, he started to paint the walls at the top on the inside of the alley so that it could hopefully be seen from the floor, and he began to retrace his many steps. "I'm coming Levi!" He yelled at the top of his lungs.

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