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Fallen

1k • mature • sheith

The besieged castle cracked open like an egg, spilling its yoke. Atlas soldiers fought valiantly. Many fight in Shiro’s name even now, but the empire has far more men. There are swarms of them, brutal and relentless. A king should be there to lead them, to make a stand with his people though it be their last. Yet he stands frozen at the window, tear tracks on his face and a crumpled missive from the front dangling from his natural hand. It would only take a breath to dislodge it. To dislodge him.

King Shiro gives up fighting when he learns his knight, his beloved, has fallen. 

🖤 Mind the tags: implied major character death, grief, open ending.

[Read the fic on AO3]