It was not long after the war had ended that Bruno received word from the Tyrolean Leibgarde that someone unexpected had arrived at his gates: a teenage girl, roughly the same age as his daughter Anna.
She was quickly approaching adulthood, though not yet there, and had traveled across the Reich alone. Outside the gates of Bruno's palace she was stopped by armed guards; and was now raising quite the commotion, demanding entry.
The only reason she wasn't outright arrested under suspicion of hostility toward the Tyrolean Grand Prince and his family was because of the name she had uttered:
"Erich von Humboldt."
The moment those words reached him, Bruno shot up from his chair. Still dressed in simple civilian clothes, he looked less like a ruling prince and more like a local sawmill laborer.
