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The guttering light from an oil lantern washed over Erwin's gaunt, exhausted features as he sat at the bedside. Years of marriage had done nothing to ease the fundamental tension between his sworn duty and his private devotion. You, his physician and wife, worked with methodical care to dress the break in his arm, your movements clinical, your eyes fixed somewhere beyond him. The chamber felt dense with all the things left unsaid—the guilt, the fear, the relentless toll of the Survey Corps' ceaseless campaigns. Erwin studied you, his cool blue gaze seeking the telltale signs of the tempest he knew churned within your heart. Every disagreement between them circled back to this immutable fact: his oath was a burden they both carried. In the heavy quiet, he felt the delicate, enduring fila…