I haven’t had a bad experience. Would you mind if I asked Melanie to talk to you? Since you figured it out, it’s not like I’m bound to keep it a...secret.”“Why would you do that?”“Because her experience doesn’t match mine. Because she’s a girl. And even when I tell you her experiences weren’t good, it’s coming from a guy, a guy who has had sex with her. I might be biased in thinking I’m some sort of sex god.”She laughed and said, “Well, from the way you tell it, you might be. Or maybe it’s just. “It is pure chance, or some might say serendipity, that Alexander the Great’s early death fragmented his Empire, allowing one of his generals, Ptolemy, to seize Egypt and found the Ptolemy Dynasty, making Ancient Greek the official and court language of Egypt. Centuries after the end of the dynasty another general, hoping to emulate Alexander, invaded Egypt, and the Rosetta Stone was found, the key which unlocked the mysterious Egyptian hieroglyphics, allowing us to reach far back in time.”The. Christ, the guy had his head stuck so far up his own arse, he was lucky he didn't castrate himself when he shaved in the mornings.When he did manage to collar me in conversation, he kept trying to ask about Emily's younger days, before he had met her. I think he thought he was trying to be subtle with his questions to both my brother and I, but actually he was about a subtle as Saddam Hussein had been when he marched his army into Kuwait. I couldn't figure out why he thought I could or would. When she saw me, she quickly blanked out her phone and smiled up at me.“You know” I said, in an attempt to make her relax, “We don’t have secrets, remember? So you don’t need to hide that you were texting.” “I know” she replied, a bit embarrassed, “But it feels funny to text with you right here.”“Well, maybe if we talk about it” I said, trying to comfort her, and also hear the dirty details, “It won’t feel so funny.”“You may be right” she added, with a smile. “and I know that you must have a.