Galliard is distracted by the wolves, and doesn't immediately realise something has come to his aid. It's not until a wolf goes soaring over his head--oh shit, have they learned how to fly now?--that he whips his head to the side and sees the rhino.
The animal isn't a total mystery to him. He's seen rhinos before; fleeing from the oncoming Marleyan military, snorting and stampeding in absolute panic with all the other strange and beautiful animals that got crushed under their war machines if they went too slow. He's never seen one like this, though, one that isn't afraid of his titan and is attacking the wolves like it's trying to help him.
He's reminded, almost immediately, of Reiner. The damn thing even looks like the Armoured titan, albeit smaller and greyer. But it's not the physical similarities that get to him. It's the way the animal ran right in and started fighting alongside him, completely ignoring its own safety.
In any case, he's got an ally in this fight, and Galliard crouches down before leaping into the air. The titan twists and contorts before landing next to the rhino but facing in the opposite direction, swatting away a wolf that was coming for its flanks. All right, rhino... you cover his back legs, he'll cover yours?
Galliard wishes, not for the first time, that his titan was capable of speech. This would be a lot easier if he knew for certain that he and the rhino were on the same page.
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The animal isn't a total mystery to him. He's seen rhinos before; fleeing from the oncoming Marleyan military, snorting and stampeding in absolute panic with all the other strange and beautiful animals that got crushed under their war machines if they went too slow. He's never seen one like this, though, one that isn't afraid of his titan and is attacking the wolves like it's trying to help him.
He's reminded, almost immediately, of Reiner. The damn thing even looks like the Armoured titan, albeit smaller and greyer. But it's not the physical similarities that get to him. It's the way the animal ran right in and started fighting alongside him, completely ignoring its own safety.
In any case, he's got an ally in this fight, and Galliard crouches down before leaping into the air. The titan twists and contorts before landing next to the rhino but facing in the opposite direction, swatting away a wolf that was coming for its flanks. All right, rhino... you cover his back legs, he'll cover yours?
Galliard wishes, not for the first time, that his titan was capable of speech. This would be a lot easier if he knew for certain that he and the rhino were on the same page.