Perhaps he should mention it aloud sometime, so that Levi can slap that idea of 'sins' right out of him, but until then...
He seems to notice that reluctance and shifts a little closer, allowing their legs to touch casually under the table. It's not much, but it's contact, and he hopes Erwin finds some comfort in it.
"Some of it, at least," Levi tells his cup, but doesn't move his knee away. The magic may contribute to that rush of energy that follows the touches, but the relief, the happiness, that has to be all them, right? Because he never thought this would be possible, because he cleaned Erwin's bones and put them in the ground, and yet here he was, sitting next to him, alive and whole -- one arm here or there.
"The magic here, it runs on touch. So you want plenty of that if you wanna use it. But not just that. If you don't touch anyone, it takes about a week for you to turn to stone."
"In other words, no going off into the segments alone," he adds, because making it about missions somehow feels safer, closer to home.
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He seems to notice that reluctance and shifts a little closer, allowing their legs to touch casually under the table. It's not much, but it's contact, and he hopes Erwin finds some comfort in it.
"Some of it, at least," Levi tells his cup, but doesn't move his knee away. The magic may contribute to that rush of energy that follows the touches, but the relief, the happiness, that has to be all them, right? Because he never thought this would be possible, because he cleaned Erwin's bones and put them in the ground, and yet here he was, sitting next to him, alive and whole -- one arm here or there.
"The magic here, it runs on touch. So you want plenty of that if you wanna use it. But not just that. If you don't touch anyone, it takes about a week for you to turn to stone."
"In other words, no going off into the segments alone," he adds, because making it about missions somehow feels safer, closer to home.