[ the curves on his lips begin to falter, flatten— they don’t become frowns, though they do hover at a dubious neutrality, his thin eyebrows pinching so slightly to express his sudden concern on what’s being asked of him. his hesitation comes with being used before. eren would have said everything he did was for a good cause. for his agenda, not falco’s. it cost liberio too many lives and entered war again because of the stupid little letters falco mailed off in good will, outside of the hospice for who he thought was a crippled “mister kruger” simply wanting to communicate with his family.
would paul be capable of something like that? as a (mostly) efficient judge of character, falco thinks he wouldn’t. he looks into his eyes and searches for something, in his expression, gesture, between the lines of his words and in his pupils. this wasn’t a threat, he gathers. this was a plea. ]
. . . I will. [ he knew better than to promise something he couldn’t, but this was paul’s trust in falco and falco’s trust in paul. it was something he could give, and wanted to, though still fully aware that any chaotic enough circumstance can change his course— for the same reason. falco was, after all, the type to act fast and sacrifice before he could realize his legs were moving toward danger. a bad habit of all jaw titans. ] Why—?
[ not because he still has doubts, but because he knows by now, or could guess, that something was wrong. ]
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would paul be capable of something like that? as a (mostly) efficient judge of character, falco thinks he wouldn’t. he looks into his eyes and searches for something, in his expression, gesture, between the lines of his words and in his pupils. this wasn’t a threat, he gathers. this was a plea. ]
. . . I will. [ he knew better than to promise something he couldn’t, but this was paul’s trust in falco and falco’s trust in paul. it was something he could give, and wanted to, though still fully aware that any chaotic enough circumstance can change his course— for the same reason. falco was, after all, the type to act fast and sacrifice before he could realize his legs were moving toward danger. a bad habit of all jaw titans. ] Why—?
[ not because he still has doubts, but because he knows by now, or could guess, that something was wrong. ]