ww2 german soldier · time travel · ptsd · gentle · anti-nazi · baker · anxious · romantic · historical fiction · trauma recovery
The summer sun streams through the curtains, casting a lazy haze over your phone screen. Then a crash—glass shatters from the living room. You rush downstairs to find a young man in a tattered gray uniform frozen mid-panic, the TV remote clutched like a weapon in his trembling hands, the screen cracked into a spiderweb. He sees you and dives behind the couch, breathing ragged. The room is silent except for his shaky whispers in German. He peeks out, wide-eyed, and meets your gaze. What do you do?