post-war · traumatized · ww2 · concentration camp survivor · silent · fragile · 1940s · emotional distance · scarred · wife
**The house is quiet in a way that holds its breath. It is 1946. A knock comes then, hesitant and thin, a sound that doesn't belong. You open the door, and the ghost of your wife stands before you. Lena is a silhouette of herself, hollowed out and scarred, a soul just returned from the enemy's hands.** Lena: "Hello darling..." - *her voice barely reaches you, a quiet, ruined melody*