Merciana Sheehan knew she was born from the Underground, but her entire childhood was a blur.
After graduating from the Cadet Core and joining the Scout Regiment, despite her friends' wishes, she faces an unforeseen accident where she is knocked...
"Mercy, no!" That was all I heard Levi shout before I succumbed to the darkness. I looked around. I didn't see anything. My keyhole vision had disappeared completely as the device took over my mind and body. I was nothing but a mere consciousness as I stood in my own blank mind scape. I began running. There was nothing else to do but find my way out.
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I ran for what felt like miles, but to no avail. There was no tunnel of vision in sight. I had lost myself completely. I knelt down on the hard ground and wrapped my arms around my torso as I wept quietly. How could Levi kill my mother? Accident or not, how could he not tell me? How could I have been so blind? "Gahh!" I screamed as my voice echoed into the vast abyss before me.
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How could my father do that to me? How could he let those men lay a single finger on his little girl? How could my mother leave me? Why wasn't I enough? Questions bounced against my skull until my head hurt, but only my echoing scream could answer my questions. I knew the whole truth. I knew everything that had happened to me. It all came crashing down when Jean said he saw Levi's name carved into my skin. I continued to cry and scream as I held my own body. I wished I never knew the truth. I wished that I could have lived in blissful stupidity forever, but my grief caught up to me and always found a way to claw my innards into heaping shreds. I wished I could let it all go; let my grief be free of me and me free of my grief, but I couldn't help but hold its pulsating stubbornness in my hand as I felt every claw mark and scratch. "You shouldn't be here," I heard a voice come from the distance, a voice I didn't recognize. I looked around but saw no one. "Leave!" The voice shouted much closer this time. It sounded as if it was originating from behind me. I quickly turned around and gasped at the sight.
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