1. . . even when she's as old as the mountain stones.
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In 833 she is 4 and her father thinks she is too young to hear the stories, too young to have lost her mother.
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In 845 she is 16 and her father thinks she is too young to leave him, too young to choose the Training Corps.
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In 848 she is 19 and her father thinks she is too young to choose the Survey Corps, too young to leave the Walls.
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"Thank you for taking care of my daughter!"
In 850 she is 21 and her father thinks she is too young to devote her life to any person or cause and has her whole life ahead of her.
In 850 she is not and she is gone.
Regret.
"She was too young to die."
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In 829 she is born and he thinks as a father: his wish to see her happy and married and with children of her own, his fear to see her die before him.
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"I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be."
~ Robert Munsch, Love You Forever
A/N: Levi/Petra if you're so inclined, and I also suggest listening to "Cinderella" by Steven Curtis Chapman.