A Wedding in the Wake of Winter Part II

After the weeding itself had been concluded, Bruno's family and their multitude of guests retired to his grand estate to engage in celebration. The bride and groom had begun their traditional waltz on the dance floor, as the attendees watched with varying and complicated expressions on their faces.

Bruno was a man who had come from a young noble house; through iron and blood, they had established their prominence over the course of the last century—born in steel and fire during the Napoleonic Wars and later cemented in the unification of the German Reich as masters of industry and military command.