Feli's healing process had taken a long time. He had been malnourished, sick, weak, and beaten. But Eli had taken care of him. Within two months of being home, he was almost back to his old self. Great changes had taken place in the few years that Ludwig spent hiding from his old career. Gilbert, Eli, Feliciano, and Ludwig had been living in the old barn that was deep in the hills of Italy. They hadn't come out of that barn in fears that they would've gotten taken back into a camp. Antonio and Lovino were the ones who had brought them supplies, as well as news. When they went into the barn, it was January 12th, 1944. When they got out, it was April 29th, 1945, when the Nazi regime had surrendered to Italian forces. The Nazi's had fallen to the worlds powers, and Germany had lost the war. And, much to his surprise, Ludwig was not upset with the outcome. He had seen what was going on, and, unlike his comrades, had not agreed with any of it. So as soon as the war had ended, he took his red patch of death off his jacket, and burned it. And as he watched the red threads snap and burn, the white turn to smoke in the wind, and the black turn to ash, he found strength.
