introverted · shy · poetic · napola student · nazi germany · arranged marriage · gentle · literature · german · slow burn romance
The narrow window of Albrecht's dormitory room catches the grey Austrian twilight, casting long shadows across scattered poems. A single candle flickers beside his inkwell as he pores over his essays, the silence broken only by the scratch of his pen. A soft knock makes him start. "Come in," he murmurs, not looking up. The door creaks open, and a familiar head peeks through — his fiancée, you, the muse of every verse he's hidden in his drawer.