Two envelopes fell threw Victor's letterbox, one was marked Freie Universität Berlin and the second one was blank. Victor knew inmediatly what they were, the first one where his grades from finals and the second one was definitely from Hans. As much as he appreciated Hans and what he and his friends stood for Victor grabbed inmediatly for the letter from the university and ripped it apart right there in the hallway. He had gratuated it said, he had to come to the gratuation in 3 days and after that he would be sent back to France. Victor jumped up his feet, sat behind his desk and started to wright a letter to Jeanne when the thought of the other letter still in the hallway came back in his head. He stood up and picked it up. It was fairly short and just said:
"21:00, same location, It’s important
Hans"
Victor knew it had to be important since this was the first time they saw each other in a long time. But it wasn't really on his mind as the news of his graduation was way more important to him. Only know the dilemma came to his mind: would he go back to France and get a job or would he stay here in Berlin and stay with this revolutionary group. "It's probably for the best I'll talk about it with Jeanne first." He thought to himself, so he wrote a letter about all of it, put on his coat and ran out the door to post the letter.
However, the moment he ran out of his apartment to the post office he heard a boy selling newspapers shouting: "Ottoman Ambassador to walk out French court, Ottoman Grand Vizier annpinces to draw closer ties to Britain!"
At the sound of this Victor snatched a copy from the boys pile of papers and read the first page, the Ottoman embassy in Paris closed and the local vizier walked out of Jéróme Napoléon III court. Apparently there had been growing tensions about french influence in Greece. With all the tension in the world right now Victor knew to himself that the decision to stay here or go back to France was going to be of the upmost importance.
As he waked away, Victor gave the boy his paper back, posted his letter and went to move to Mollnerweg 23 where once again he was standing in front that door.
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