Shortly after having his meeting with Karl, Bruno departed for his home in Tyrol. There was no reason to extend his meeting beyond business. At least not in the Hofburg where he was only just barely welcomed as a result of Karl's forgiveness.
But others in that ancient palace still bristled at his presence. And frankly, Bruno never felt comfortable in the halls of old monsters; men whose power had been won by more subterfuge and skullduggery than history cared to admit.
Thus, he was on the first train out of Vienna, and it was not long after Karl and Bruno's meeting that the Archduke of Austria returned to his cousin, Sophie von Hohenberg. Sophie was the eldest child of the late Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg.
