[You sound a little like Mikasa, Amber. Stupidly, it's less aggravating from another source (because it's less constant, less familiar, because there's less history,) but he brushes it off just as quickly. He's used to needing to prove himself, to keep moving forward, and he does it as a reflex. Back straighter, salutes stronger, head held high and teeth bared against the world.
His mouth presses into a thin line when she persists, shoulders a little tense, answer a little impatient. He doesn't sleep particularly easy in the first place—but that's not news. He never has, even before the wall fell, before he'd enlisted, before he'd seen his first battle or shifted the first time. He's had plenty of cause for nightmares, since, and he's mostly used to it. He slows down to look back at her over a shoulder.]
I'm not gonna hold you back, if that's what you're worried about.
[He'd signed up to help protect the edges of camp because he doesn't want to stand for a repeat of the Neraki ambush. He'd screwed up once. He's not letting it happen again.]
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His mouth presses into a thin line when she persists, shoulders a little tense, answer a little impatient. He doesn't sleep particularly easy in the first place—but that's not news. He never has, even before the wall fell, before he'd enlisted, before he'd seen his first battle or shifted the first time. He's had plenty of cause for nightmares, since, and he's mostly used to it. He slows down to look back at her over a shoulder.]
I'm not gonna hold you back, if that's what you're worried about.
[He'd signed up to help protect the edges of camp because he doesn't want to stand for a repeat of the Neraki ambush. He'd screwed up once. He's not letting it happen again.]