A Wager

If there was one thing Drake Khan did not like about this world, that thing was surprises.

He loathed them. Utterly despised them.

This special hatred he had reserved for surprises came from the fact that, being a Khan, surprises were rarely ever good ones.

Most days he prided himself in keeping his life on a short leash, and there were few things worse than a hound acting out.

If there was ever a time things had gotten out of hand, it was then, in that moment.

He watched Eren from his perch across the room.

Drake had never been the smartest in school, so he was not too startled.

However he could not understand what happened to Eren in the month he went away without leave.

But the thing was, no one else seemed to understand the transformation the boy had gone through either.

He was not sure whether to call it adolescence.

Under what bloody sun had the lad become so bloody sturdy? He was enormous compared to who he used to be.

"Is that Eren?" He had heard