[The same way it always feels to be awake. It's always been Hell, hasn't it? Eren was never satisfied - never can be, maybe, because he still isn't. Memories endure, always, many more terrible than beautiful. There is no death - no peace - for people like Eren and Maruki. He'll struggle to accept that forever, maybe; he's lived so many forevers, already.
cw: suicidal ideation
[The same way it always feels to be awake. It's always been Hell, hasn't it? Eren was never satisfied - never can be, maybe, because he still isn't. Memories endure, always, many more terrible than beautiful. There is no death - no peace - for people like Eren and Maruki. He'll struggle to accept that forever, maybe; he's lived so many forevers, already.
[Eren doesn't breathe. At least, there's that.
[His response, finally, perhaps unsatisfactory:]
I wish it would stick.
[Still. He's glad to see Maruki.]
Clearly, that's just not how it works.