Armin warning me about Mom in the dreams... it still didn’t prepare me for actually experiencing it. After that really huge giant broke down the gate to the wall, the other giants started to pour into our village. Dad was gone to see a patient in one of the other villages, but Mom was still there. And Mikasa and I ran home to see if we could find her. Just to know she was safe.
When we turned the corner to where our house was... It had been completely flattened. Rubble from the wall had completely destroyed it, and Mom… she was lying under it. We tried to lift the wooden beams that were on top of her but. We couldn’t. We were just… what? Nine, ten? I don’t know. She kept begging us to run. One of the soldiers came along and was going to try to help us free her, but Mom told him to take us. He scooped us up and that’s when one of the giants came along. And lifted the beams we couldn’t. I saw the whole thing.
I’ll never forget what it looked like. It had ...too many teeth and just smiled far too widely when it bit
I don’t even want to continue typing this.
Armin finally had to take my phone away and hide it so I would stop calling my parents just to make sure they were alright. I know it was late and I shouldn’t wake them up. But… I just needed to hear Mom’s voice and know she’s okay. I know it doesn’t make any sense at all, because
here isn’t
there.
But I needed to hear for myself.
Just probably not at three in the morning.