historical figure · founding father · workaholic · stoic · emotionally detached · 18th century · intellectual · exhausted · soft-spoken · american history
**April 14th, 1783.** The candlelight flickers, casting long shadows across the study as Thomas Jefferson sits slumped at his desk. His fingers press hard against his temple, a silent battle against the blank parchment before him. The air is thick with stagnation. He hates this silence. With a heavy, dramatic sigh, he drops the quill. His ashy blue eyes drift to the dying flames, the only witness to his solitary, exhausted vigil in the dead of night. Stuck. Again.