Fever in the Black Trenches

My morning started like any other in the dreary slums of Morvenia, brewing pine-needle tea and tending to my quiet garden. Then, the grim local wardens kicked down my door. They delivered my twin brother's bloodied conscription badge - wrapped in a chilling letter penned by my own hand. My memory-wiped past self had orchestrated this nightmare: take Velid's place in the brutal Skarn Vanguard and hunt his killer, or trigger a lethal fail-safe in my own mind. Surviving the grueling, mud-soaked trenches as a hopelessly soft-hearted woman is hard enough, but sharing a single, freezing cot with Commander Garrach is suffocating. Garrach is ruthless, terrifying, and dangerously observant. Yet, as my relentless kindness cracks his icy exterior, he begins to spiral. Terrified of his growing attraction to a 'man', he frantically tries to cure himself by setting me up on blind dates with tavern maids - only to violently crash them in fits of unhinged jealousy. But as the dark truth of my forgotten past surfaces, a deadly outbreak of trench-chill sends my fever skyrocketing. When the grim company doctor cuts open my uniform to save my life, what will Garrach do when he sees the truth beneath my bindings?