“Do you know how long I stayed there?” Levi asked in a low voice.
“No,” Eren answered quietly.
“Three days. For three days I sat there in the dark. Too afraid, too weak to move. Inhaling the smell of decay as it rotted my mother’s corpse. I stayed that way until Kenny found me. Kenny—“ Levi spat.
He collected himself, the venom fading from his voice as a tremble overtook it.
“And that scent—that filthy, disgusting odor—I realized it’s everywhere in the underground. It gets into the pores of your flesh, crawls under your fingernails, and rolls under your tongue. And no