Lando was in an ice cave he was walking around searching for a way out. Lando was walking around when he found something that made him stop. Inside the ice there was a family but not any family Lando recognized these faces; they were an MP's family that Kenny had made him kill.
The family's eyes turned to look at him while they were on ice, then the ice broke and they were walking towards Lando.
"Monster! Monster! Monster!" The family chanted.
Lando tried to speak but words wouldn't come out, then the ice started to melt as the family withered away. Lando was panicking trying to survive while the cave came down but he was too late as an iceberg pierced him through the chest.
Lando opened his eyes to find himself once again in the cabin while everyone else was sleeping.
"These wildfires never stop." He muttered to himself.
Lando walked out onto the porch of the cabin as the snow fell, it had been snowing for a while now and the ground was littered with white. Lando went back inside, pulled out his journal and started to draw.
Eventually, everyone woke up to see Lando sitting on his bed drawing again, this was a regular site everyone knew he had terrible night terrors so he never really slept only about 3 hours a night.
It was time for breakfast so everyone went over to the mess hall, Lando had just gotten his food and was walking over to his usual seat. Nobody ever sat next to him, he was always left alone.
"Lando sit with us today!" Eren told him as he walked by.
Lando knew Eren by now he knew that there was going to be some question he wanted to ask.
Lando sat across from the three, He knew how to read Eren and Armin pretty well. Tell Eren that whatever he did was to kill Titans he would do it, Pressure Armin enough and he'll do anything, but Mikasa he didn't know how to read her all he knew was that if Eren was involved she would be there.
Lando started eating his breakfast waiting for what ever question one of them had.
"Lando, why do you never sleep?" Eren asked.
"My mind does not allow me to," Lando responded.
"What does that mean?" Eren questioned.
"It means he has nightmares," Armin told Eren
"What kind of nightmares do you have?" Eren asked.
"I prefer to not talk about them," Lando said.
Eren sighed before talking to Armin and Mikasa about something, Lando stayed mostly quiet. Before Mikasa asked out of the blue.
"Lando when we go through the mountain can you come with us?" Mikasa asked.
Lando was surprised. "Why me? aren't you enough, you are one of the best."
"Yeah, we don't need him," Eren told Mikasa. "Besides I'll be fine I don't even need you."
Mikasa looked at the ground looking depressed while Lando sighed.
"Fine, I'll tag along if you guys can get me a scarf to cover my face and a mask to hide my eyes from the cold," Lando told them.
Mikasa looked up at him and nodded
Lando laughed inside " What lengths will this girl go to for Eren?" he thought.
Mikasa left them alone Lando presumed it was to go get the items he requested, Eren asked Lando and Armin about stuff and they talked about nothing for a while. The bell rang causing all of them to go out into the cold, Lando hated the cold.
Lando ignored Sadies yelling, he always did that. Everyone lined up for their coats. Lando did the same; he got a scarf so that was one item that Mikasa didn't need to grab if she knew they handed them out.
Lando put everything on and after he saw Mikasa coming up to him.
"I got it." She said, handing him black ski goggles.
"You keep your end of the deal, I'll keep mine." Lando told her as he put the goggles on.
Conny and Sasha came over to Lando while he was talking to Mikasa.
"Hey Lando wanna join me and Sasha's group?" Conny asked.
"Woah where did you get those goggles you look like a villain or something with those," Sasha said.
Lando was confused but he thought about it. The goggles were all black and his entire body was covered, but Lando liked that he wasn't as cold, especially his face. It was nice.
"Sorry I can't join your group. I owe Mikasa a favor and she asked me to join her group," Lando responded.
Conny and Sasha left after that, leaving Lando to go over to Mikasa, Eren and Armin.
"I said we didn't need you out there, we will be fine," Eren told Lando.
"Hate to burst your bubble but I'm not here for you, I owed Mikasa a favor and this was what she asked of me, not everything is about you ya know," Lando said to Eren who huffed at what he said. While Mikasa looked at him angrily Lando thought it was probably because he was being mean to Eren.
"Guess I'll just talk to Armin. He is the only person here that I can probably get along with." Lando thought
Sadies yelled, "Go!" and everyone took off.
Lando was annoyed that Eren started to run which caused a chain reaction and then caused Lando to have to run to keep up with them but Eren eventually tired out.
Lando was bored so he took out his journal and started to draw. It was windy but he made sure he didn't mess up.
"Lando why do you always draw," Eren asked
"To keep me sane," Lando said.
Eren looked confused so Lando continued. "To you, it's killing the Titans, to Armin it's being loved, to Mikasa it's protecting you." "We all need to have something or we will all go insane
Nobody said anything after Lando's words; they continued to walk in silence. Armin eventually got tired so they rested for a second, which gave Lando time to finish his drawing.
Lando walked over to Mikasa and handed her something without saying anything. Mikasa looked at it, it was Her, Eren, and Armin standing on land looking out into a blue void. Eren and Armin saw this too and they all looked at Lando.
"I overheard you talking about the ocean and how it's your dream so I drew it with all you guys looking at it."
"It's an amazing drawing!" Armin said
"Yeah, and we'll see it one day in person!" Eren said.
Mikasa looked at the drawing before staring at Lando saying " Thank you."
They started walking again and Lando faded behind them listening to them talk.
Mikasa was bugging Eren about how he was feeling and Eren told her off which caused her to become depressed, she slowed her pace and was not behind Armin and Eren as they talked.
"You can't do the same thing over and over and over again and then expect a new result," Lando told her. "Sometimes all it takes is a single word to change the way someone thinks."
She looked at him but didn't say anything before she walked back up to Eren and Armin.
"I should've gone alone, I could have gotten there already." Lando thought.
The four of them made it back to the camp. Some girl there was talking about time but Lando ignored her. They walked over to where the others who got there before them.
"Though we were going to die out there, no one said winter training would be this tough," Eren said.
Lando sat across from all of them laying down and staring at the sky.
"Damn it, I can't feel my legs," Jean said.
"I wish they'd let us inside already," Conny said
"I bet they're busy putting together a huge feast for us! Yum…" Sasha said. "What do you think they are doing, Lando?"
Lando didn't respond, causing everyone to think he fell asleep because he wasn't moving at all, Sasha walked over and kicked him but he didn't move.
"Well the guy never sleeps, he is probably always tired, he always has nightmares," Jean said.
"I always wonder what kind of nightmares he has," Eren said.
"I don't know but knowing them they are probably hell." Jean said
Reiner came running over to them saying "Hey, Christa is missing."
"She was sticking with Daz since he wasn't doing so well," Mikasa said.
"Daz isn't here, Yimir as well," Reiner said.
A black haired boy came over saying "Maybe they're with the last squad."
"Can't be. The last squad led by Thomas, just arrived." Reiner said."They never saw those three."
Everyone gasped but as Lando listened he knew that they would be fine, Yimir was as bad as Mikasa is. She would do anything to protect Christa, Lando knows almost everyone's weakness here just in case Kenny always drilled it into him to always have an ace.
"You don't think they got lost?" Armin asked
"Hey…They don't stand a chance if they're stuck in this blizzard." Conny said.
"Shit." Eren said.
He started to walk towards somewhere when Mikasa grabbed him saying "Eren."
"I'm going back out to try and find them!" Eren declared
"Then how are you going to get them back without dying?" Lando finally spoke up and he hasn't moved from the ground since they got there.
"I'm going to find them and bring them back alive somehow!" Eren said to Lando.
"Nothing is guaranteed if you go out there and die you will never fight the Titans, never get your revenge, everything you worked so hard for will be gone in an instant if you go out there and freeze," Lando told them.
Before Eren could respond the girl came over and said "Everyone in the cabin."
"But.. Christa-" Eren was saying before getting cut off.
"Yeah. We'll send a rescue team first thing in the morning." the girl said.
"It'll be too late by then!" Eren said.
"Didn't you listen to your friend? I will not make any more victims!" The girl said.
Everyone went inside but Lando stayed out there.
"I said everyone go inside." The girl told Lando standing over him.
"I don't sleep much and the sky is nice to stare at. Please let me stay out here," Lando said.
The girl sighed before agreeing but if Lando froze it wouldn't be her fault.
Lando stayed out there all of a sudden he heard the cabin door swing open.
"Somebody's coming!" Sasha yelled out.
Yimir came over with Daz and they took him in to get him warm.
"Christa is coming, I'll stay out here and wait for her you guys go inside," Ymir said.
Everyone protested but Yimir finally got them to stop.
Yimir walked over to where Lando was lying, staring at the sky.
"Are you dead?" Yimir said to him.
"Do you ever stare at the sky and just appreciate it?" Lando asked.
"Guess that answers my question and no I don't," Yimri responded
"I am from the Underground so I have never seen the sky till I enlisted, I had always dreamed of seeing it. When I first saw a starry sky it was everything I ever imagined," Lando said.
"It's a pointless dream," Yimir said.
"Some may say that your dream of Christa always being safe is a pointless dream," Lando replied.
"That is not my dream, my dream is to live my life with pride," Yimir told him.
"That is a front, you lie to yourself for some reason, you are just as bad as Mikasa is with Eren," Lando said.
Before Yimir could respond Lando said, "Remember that howsoever you are played or by who your soul is in your keeping alone."
"What do you know about me?!" Yimir demanded.
But Lando did not respond; he went back to his quiet and motionless state.
"You are a real piece of work," Yimir told him.
Lando didn't respond again and they stayed like that.
Christa had just walked over the hill overlooking the cabins.
"Ymir…" She said out loud but as she got closer she saw someone laying there motionless "Lando..?" She said,
"Took you long enough. I got here before you." Yimir said. "I told Reiner and the others I'd wait since you'd come along eventually." "What a stupid thing I've done…"
"Where's Daz?" Christa exclaimed.
They both looked over to see Daz in the cabin in a blanket shivering.
"That was the cliff?" Christa said. "But you didn't have any rope. Even if you did, it's too high. How did you get Daz down from there?"
Yimir got up and started walking saying "Why not, I think I can trust you. However… Promise me. When I reveal my secret to everyone, promise me. Take back your old name and live."
"Did you guys forget that I was here?" Lando said out loud causing both of them to whip their heads at him.
"Of course, I did you haven't moved or spoken in hours." Yimir said to him "You better not tell anyone about what I said."
"Don't worry you guys know I barely talk as it is, besides I can keep a secret and it gives me wiggle room with you guys if you guys ever try to attack me or something," Lando said.
"I would never!" Christa exclaimed.
"In a stressful environment, human instinct kicks in and you will do what it takes to survive. Always nice to have an ace." Lando said to her
Christa looked sad but said, " Thank you for waiting for me with Yimir."
Lando ignored what she said, saying, 'Christa, do you ever look up at the sky and just appreciate it?'
"Sometimes I do," Christa said.
"Then I don't need to say anything," Lando said walking to the cabin.
"What was that about?" Christa asked. " Was he waiting for me?"
"I don't know he was the only one out here when I got here staring at the sky," Yimir said. "Just when I thought I had him all figured out as some quiet loner who is the best at everything, he talks to me about the sky and how my soul is in my keeping alone."
Lando walked into the boy's cabin to see everyone still awake.
"Christa is back, she is ok," Lando announced before walking over to his bed, taking off the winter clothing, and laying on his bed trying to fall asleep.
Everyone in there was surprised how he drops a bombshell like that before going to bed.
" I can never get a good read on that guy," Jean said.
Lando heard him say that before he drifted off to sleep to probably only get 4 hours of sleep with his nightmares.
I watched Oppenheimer today and I can confirm that it's a classic already. 9/10.
End of Chapter 15.
