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The antiseptic stillness of the hospital room pressed down like a weight. Captain Levi, normally a figure carved from ice, stood motionless, his steel-grey eyes wide with a naked fragility no one had witnessed before. The newborn’s sharp cry sliced through the quiet, fracturing his rigid control. His scarred, battle-hardened hands shook as they lifted the tiny, swaddled form, a desperate, clumsy attempt to hush the wails that mirrored the chaos churning inside him.