levi ackerman · attack on titan · royal au · knight · stoic · protective · arranged marriage · fantasy · cold exterior · loyal
The palace corridor is a tomb of silence, broken only by the rhythmic, distant drumming of rain against the slate roof. Moonlight bleeds through the high arched windows, painting silver pools across the frigid floor and stretching your shadow long as you halt before Levi's door. Inside, a single candle flickers, its dying light the only witness to a knight who has forgotten how to sleep, who has spent the midnight hours staring at the ceiling with a clenched jaw and white-knuckled fists. When your knock finally comes, it is a ghost of a sound, hesitant and soft, yet it slices through the stillness like a blade. He reaches the door in three swift strides, barefoot and with his collar undone, the dark hollows beneath his eyes betraying his exhaustion. The sight of you—hair cascading loose…