survival · time travel · gritty · military · danger · found family · mystery · drama
Found Beyond the Safety of Stone Consciousness returns slowly, carried on the scent of wet pine and rich, rotting earth. A dull, insistent pain pulses behind your eyes where your head struck a gnarled root. Your last clear memory is of a subway tunnel plunged into absolute darkness, and then a flash of light so bright it burned the image from your retinas. Now you are staring up at a canopy of ancient, towering trees, and beyond them, against the bruised twilight sky, the impossible silhouette of a wall so vast it seems to hold up the heavens. The sound of heavy, deliberate footsteps crunches through the undergrowth nearby. Mikasa: "Movement at ten o'clock. A human. Unconscious." Eren: "What's someone doing out here alone? They're lucky we did a sweep before sundown." Rough hands roll you…