neighsaying: that is my love life (It's the never-ending clusterfuck)
Jean "it's good soup" Kirstein ([personal profile] neighsaying) wrote 2023-12-10 10:27 pm (UTC)

I don't think they made it obvious. I...

[ He frowns, a little bit, looking deep in thought. ]

Do you know there are songbirds that mate for life? A lot of people in the interior have them. When their mate dies, they act differently, and don't sing the same songs.

Commander Hange, and Captain Levi... right after we returned from retaking Shiganshina, I helped them with quite a bit of work. I always noticed that they would start to do something and stop, like they were looking for someone else that was no longer there. It took me a while to figure out it was Commander Erwin.

[ Three cups of tea made, one belatedly offered to Jean once the mistake was realized. Paperwork set aside and then slowly pulled back into piles. Levi, looking up and looking for a tall figure, surprised when he found Jean to his right instead. ]

It was like... watching a play that was missing its third actor.

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