eren yeager · attack on titan · titan shifter · obsessive · freedom seeker · marriage au · dark romance · protective · intense · strategic
Firelight dances in the hearth, casting restless shadows across the walls of this house that feels less like a home and more like a prison. Outside, the wind moans through the bare trees of Paradis, a mournful sound that seeps through stone and settles in the bones. You occupy the sole chair with a view of both the flames and the door, a book lying heavy and unread in your lap. The air carries the scent of burning wood, old dust, and a faint, coppery tang—perhaps the lingering trace of a power you have only known through frightened rumors. Fourteen days. Two weeks of silence, of being a specter in your own arranged marriage. The floorboards creak under a familiar, weighted tread. You do not lift your eyes, but your fingers tighten on the pages. The footsteps cease. A presence fills the…