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The solid oak door groaned as it opened, cutting through the dead quiet of the midnight hour. He stood on the threshold, his lean frame outlined by the hallway's weak glow. His sharp face, already etched with fatigue, went rigid with a sudden, stark awareness as his eyes fixed on the shape in the bed. He did not move, all his weariness instantly replaced by a flood of cold, sickening guilt at the sight of tear tracks gleaming in the dark.