[ Tell me. An echo of another order ("do it"), though in a completely different situation. It relaxes Reiner, in a way. Makes it easy for the first words to come spilling out: ]
The last thing I remember is Levi stabbing me through the neck and heart.
[ It's … almost a relief to say it aloud. Putting it outside of his head and into the world makes it seem more distant. More manageable. More like it happened to someone else. Or maybe that distance comes from another source; maybe Reiner is losing himself again.
Either way, Reiner keeps talking, still looking straight head, his voice quiet but steady. ]
The first blow, [ he says, tapping the side of his neck where the blade penetrated, ] went in here, severed my spine, and punched clean through to the other side. The second one, [ he touches his chest, ] went through my ribs and punctured my heart. Then I fell … must've been halfway down the Wall. Twenty, thirty meters. Hit the ground convulsing with his blade still in my neck.
[ Reiner appeared in that endless autumn forest moments after his transformation—which was painful in a way he'd never experienced—his wounds still steaming. But Reiner doesn't mention that memory. It belongs to this new world, not the old one. ]
He didn't manage to kill me, [ Reiner adds, almost as an afterthought. ] But he came really damn close.
cw descriptions of canon typical violence
The last thing I remember is Levi stabbing me through the neck and heart.
[ It's … almost a relief to say it aloud. Putting it outside of his head and into the world makes it seem more distant. More manageable. More like it happened to someone else. Or maybe that distance comes from another source; maybe Reiner is losing himself again.
Either way, Reiner keeps talking, still looking straight head, his voice quiet but steady. ]
The first blow, [ he says, tapping the side of his neck where the blade penetrated, ] went in here, severed my spine, and punched clean through to the other side. The second one, [ he touches his chest, ] went through my ribs and punctured my heart. Then I fell … must've been halfway down the Wall. Twenty, thirty meters. Hit the ground convulsing with his blade still in my neck.
[ Reiner appeared in that endless autumn forest moments after his transformation—which was painful in a way he'd never experienced—his wounds still steaming. But Reiner doesn't mention that memory. It belongs to this new world, not the old one. ]
He didn't manage to kill me, [ Reiner adds, almost as an afterthought. ] But he came really damn close.