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Awesome Heroes, Just Like You and Me

Chapter 52: City of a Hundred Spires (Czechia)

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(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

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1991

Czechia stood at the foot of the metronome in Letná Park, overlooking her city.

The Golden City, they had called Prague; City of a Hundred Spires; the Capital of the Realm—deliberately leaving out which one, the Kingdom of Bohemia or the Holy Roman Empire.

The years of the First Czechoslovak Republic had been good, too: Independence after years of humiliation in the Habsburg Empire, and Prague had become the capital once again.

Now, communism had taken its toll on Prague’s beauty: Decaying building structures; loose cobblestones with dangerous gaps...

She missed the way her city had gleamed in the late Middle Ages, proud and prosperous, just like her. She missed the years of emergence after her independence, too.

But now, the Velvet Revolution had kissed her city awake. Stalin’s monument was gone, the metronome in its place. Change was coming.

She hoped her city would change for the better now.

Notes:

This story was written for a drabble challenge on the Discord “18+ Hetalia Writers Inc.” The prompt was “Nostalgia” and the word count goal was 150 words.

The view from the metronome in Letná Park is really lovely. I spent a part of one of my first nights ever in Prague there, overlooking the city (and listening to Bon Jovi xD).