Dans les 20 minutes qui suivirent, trois personnes entrèrent dans l'atelier de porc : une femme clairement stressée, aux cheveux longs, bouclés et mal accueillis, aux yeux bleus, une femme plus modeste, aux cheveux noirs de taille semblable et court, et un homme bien habillé, aux cheveux blonds foncés et au regard cynique. Aucun d'eux n'était l'ami qu'Albrecht attendait, et chacun d'eux était loin d'y être. La fille qu'il recherchait était insouciante, toute garish et aimable, et enfantinement insupportable et tout à fait adulte.
Une télé montée au hasard sur le mur nord de la salle a montré CNN dont les ancres débattaient actuellement de la piste électorale de 2016 et du pape. Une station sportive sur l'autre TV présentait des informations sur les Nationals et les Mariners. Le reste de la boutique n'a pas dit que rien d'autre ne pouvait être entendu sauf pour les journalistes, se vantant de l'importance de la visite du Pape il y a quatre jours à peine et de la montée de Bernie Sanders, ou pour les commentateurs, spéculant sur l'issue des jeux de baseball qui joueraient plus tard dans la soirée. Idly Albrecht a de nouveau vérifié son téléphone et a regardé dehors le magasin comme si son reflet dans la fenêtre serait soudainement remplacé par la présence de son ami. "14:50. 29 septembre 2015," son téléphone a lu. Il était déjà assis là depuis environ 15 minutes, sa nourriture était déjà nettoyée de son plateau et sa boisson était à moitié vide. Oui, elle était particulièrement tardive.
Parlant du diable, et de la lumière réfractée à travers la pièce, la cloche au-dessus de la porte d'entrée sonne sa réponse. Et voici, elle était arrivée. La jeune fille avait un jean mince serré et un haut de réservoir noir, Fall Out Boy, et au-dessus, elle portait un cardigan ouvert à la menthe avec une impression florale. Ses cheveux brun clair tombaient sous ses épaules, et ses yeux étaient d'un bleu moyen. Elle avait un long visage, une belle peau et des lèvres comme des roses à l'automne, tout cela venant de son ascendance nordique. Albrecht l'a appelée dans sa haute voix, en fait. "Spät."
-- Quoi? L'ascendance nordique qui ne l'a manifestement pas atteinte.
"J'ai dit,'spät.' Tu sais, l'allemand pour "dernier"? Albrecht parlait comme si elle s'attendait à ce qu'elle le sache, comme s'il la cognait pour une grave erreur.
Elle a rejoint le garçon aux cheveux bruns avec les lunettes. « Salope », a-t-elle dit, le giflant sur le visage avec gaieté.
"Quoi qu'il en soit, Clarissa." Albrecht a roulé les manches de sa chemise vestimentaire et s'est croisé les jambes, et il s'est moqué d'elle. Il a glissé sa nourriture vers elle à travers la table, et Claire a siroté sa boisson préférée comme si c'était de l'eau bénite. Brûlant ses doigts sur la table au rythme d'une chanson seulement il savait, le jeune Hart a demandé, "De quoi vouliez-vous parler, encore?" Elle lui avait déjà dit qu'elle avait quelque chose d'intéressant à faire ou à parler (ou quelque chose comme ça, mais Albrecht ne s'est guère souvenu à ce stade), et la question était brûlante dans son esprit.
Name. Albrecht Hart
Sex/Gender. Male
Age. 17
Appearance.
Albrecht is a boy of average proportions; he is neither lanky nor squat, just 5 feet and 4 inches tall and weighing roughly 145 pounds. Though his name is typical of someone of European descent, his appearance is less so. His skin is soft, oily, and slightly tanned, and it brings such an organic warmth to those touched by his deft fingers. Although there are physical features of his that are traditionally considered desirable to women, he is nonetheless characteristically masculine, marked by broad shoulders, a defined chest, and at least a bit of muscle layered on his full build. His face is square-jawed with scruff forming the beginnings of a full beard and mustache, but it is Albrecht's wide, amber brown eyes that bring balance and soften his face into a mysterious mix. His nose is flat, but like a Roman's, it is somewhat convex. So his cheeks are, supple and childlike, but high-boned. Dark brown hair comes down just a hint below his ears to cover his forehead. His hair, like his skin, is soft, and it is typically parted this way or that to offer a sense of care for his physical appearance, layered in an undercut but never pulled back, done up, or gelled.
The color blue used to feature prominently in his clothing, but in the past year or so other colors have begun to appear in his closet, among them warm colors and pastels. He likes casual button-ups with rolled-up sleeves, simple patterns and textures, or colorblock, T-shirts and baseball tees, tank tops, cargo shorts, khakis, the occasional pair of colored pants or shorts, and flat shoes. Every now and then he'll don formal wear, normally just a plain black American-cut suit with a flat-colored tie and dress shoes. Aside from Albrecht's more bold fashion choices, the rest of his wardrobe is fairly standard for his age, if not a little on the trendy side. On the daily, Albrecht wears a necklace with Odin's knot, a plain silver ring on his index finger, and half-rimmed glasses.
Personality.
Albrecht from youth has always possessed a talent in intellectual pursuits, but instability in his family ultimately carried heavily into his personality. Like his father, Albrecht Hart has a fiery passion that was constant across his emotions except under the effects of depression. At the peak of that passion, Albrecht's joy and compassion radiates from him and inspires ambitions and genius revelations, but at the junction of his temper, Albrecht could lash out and become a storm unto himself. Perhaps the more crippling of his flaws is his sadness, arising from nothing but his own introspection or paranoia and withholding him from really enjoying in his successes or in his identity.
The nearest Myers-Briggs type to his personality is the ENFP personality type, serving as a fair marker for who he is as a person. Albrecht is sociable and amiable, preferring the company of others to the isolation of himself, but it is not as though alone-time can be a good break from the romping, distracting swings of happiness he experiences in the presence of friends. As for his love of humanity, he seeks to help others but also wants their attention and admiration for the sake of his own validation, and hence he relies on them for his redemption to feel true edification. Often however can he become occupied with his big dream of changing the world, in his strong, dissenting opinions.
But this dream does not separate itself from Albrecht's overall compassion and sympathy. He is an incredible device, sensitive to even the slightest of social cues and ticks that allow him to more quickly understand and become aware of another person's emotions or his role in a situation. In such a way, his intuition does not betray him. His unabashed idealism and spontaneity mark his wish for the freedom to act as he pleases so long as what he is doing is harmless and good. This aspect of his personality can be, though, a dual-edged sword of independence and rebellious antiestablishmentarianism.
Skills.
Plays piano and violin
Writes and draws well
Speaks German
Has decent math skills and a good memory
Can drive

Biography.
Albrecht Hart was born on July 15th in Seattle into an average middle class family, raised by an immigrant mother and a normal American father. His two parents were more conservative than was the norm for the area, and for a while Albrecht bought into the classic tales told of all things Republican and religious. His boyhood felt miserable and dragged on for what seemed like years in which the cruelty of young kids punctured his spirit and left him dejected.
As he entered adolescence and came to terms with his homosexuality at the age of 12, he isolated himself emotionally from others, went through the phases of middle school, became an atheist, and behaved fairly sophomoric. That isolation only hurt him worse and worse until the breaking point, when in his freshman year of high school, a spiritual realization hit him. In that year he syncretically embraced Catholic and interfaith spirituality with a particularly resistant attitude to the more conservative doctrines of the religion, an experience that ultimately shaped his spiritual growth in high school and changed most of his attitudes in a radical evolution of the mind and soul.
His emotional vices and the like still led to deep internal conflicts with desire and virtue, and they continued to govern a more strained relationship with his father and a warming relationship with his mother as he began to escape the self-containing introvertive and cynical thinking, that kept him confined in the earlier stages of his development, and establish himself as his own master. He began to hold his head higher and smile and laugh more, becoming himself a beacon of his own happiness after that life-changing experience, turning him into a figure of interest and of friendliness at his school.