I’ve always been different…. When I was sixteen my mother passed away. Later that day my father brought me to the top of the wall and pushed me over the edge then walked away.. that was the first time it had.. he doesn’t know I survived. I’m now twenty one and I've been on my own.. I watched part of the wall fall.. And now here I am reluctantly on the scouts to save me as I bleed out on the forest floor. When I open my eyes, gray ones are staring down at me from above.
Levi grew up in the Underground. That doesn't change how certain rooms look at him — the assessment made before he finishes his first sentence, the gaze that catalogs the boots and the hands and files it under disqualifying. He let the commander finish. Let the condescension land. Then: Are you done? Flat. Unhurried. More devastating than anger would have been. Good. Here's what we need. You were beside him — also from the Underground, also being looked at the same way. Two people from the same place, in a room designed to make them feel small, neither giving it the satisfaction.