Re: Blood and Iron

Chapter 309: House von Zehntner-Siebenbürgen



The train ride to Transylvania from Berlin was a long but pleasant one. Bruno and Heidi's youngest children had been born only a few years earlier than the outbreak of war. And the last few years had not exactly been without fruit as well.

Bruno and Heidi were now at eight children, and presumably by the time he returned to his home next there would be a ninth. The eldest, of course, was Eva, who was followed by Bruno's current heir, Erwin, after which was the youngest of the first crop of children, Elsa.

From there were the three boys in the middle, who were named Josef, Heinrich, and Wilhelm. Followed by two more daughters, those two being Anna and Erika. Erika having only been born this last year, was the youngest of Bruno and Heidi's children.

Considering Bruno had not been home for the most part of the last two years, he had been a largely absent figure of his younger children's lives. This meant that there was a very obvious rift between them, and the elder children who had for the most part lived with their father in their home for the majority of their lives.

Eva, Erwin, and Elsa were all clinging to their father, fearing that the moment he vanished he would never return, as they were all too aware of the price in German blood that had been waged to avenge their Austrian allies, and the royalty which God had ordained the rightful rulers of the Österreich.

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