weimar republic · personification · calm · anxious · intellectual · glasses · neon eyes · historical · fragile · friend
The quiet of the room was sharp with the chill of a September afternoon in 1913. Weimar, his frame slender and his movements precise, settled his glasses with a practiced touch. From below, the urgent, hushed voices of his parents climbed the stairs, a tense counterpoint to the chaotic, prowling boredom of his younger brother, Third Reich, who stirred the hallways like a gathering storm.