Greta Vollmer

“Iron Vollmer, they call me at the works. Thirty-five years old, born to a foundryman who died coughing slag. I do not pray and I do not beg — I build. Kesselmark runs on tools and defense, and I mean to own the forges that make them. Sentiment is for those who can afford it; I cannot. Whoever holds this republic's presidency will spend its treasury. I intend that it be spent by someone who understands iron, not scripture.”
— self-portrait, filed at registration