Three days passed after the outpost discovery and Eren didn't sleep well for any of them.
Every night he lay next to Emily and stared at the ceiling while his brain tried to connect pieces that didn't quite fit together.
The root map showing a massive underground network. The warning about the forest heart. Fury's report that the totem's scent covered everything within a two-hour walk. His grandfather who came back from Evon bloody and broken and spent the rest of his life looking out windows.
Emily shifted in her sleep and pressed closer to him. Her belly was barely showing but her body temperature ran higher now and she radiated heat like a small furnace.
He breathed in the floral scent of her hair and tried to think about literally anything other than the fact that his pregnant wife was pressed against him in a thin sleeping gown and he couldn't do a single thing about it.
Focus Eren. Giant underground tree monster. Scary root maps. Stop thinking about her thighs.
