and as you leave there are children playing at your feet

”I hope so. I know if I beat him that my prize would be a visit.” If she learned enough, and trained hard, she could defeat the scar marked titan. She knew she could, she had to. Poem needed to take every opportunity to return and be with her family. Especially now after the awful loss suffered. She hated that her mother was gone, despised the way she was forced to go. And more, she was disappointed in herself for failing to come back. For not getting to say her goodbye. ”I will.” The girl assured her sister quietly, everything she learned in the next year she would teach her sibling. ”I know..” There was no preventing the accident, but Poem still wished she had come home faster and hadn’t been the casualty in Motif’s return. She’d failed to make her family whole before its heart was ripped away. ”You’ll have to look after her for me.” Poem admitted with sorrow. Their sister was going to need real support.