"Why don't you figure out which one is 1394 and which one is 1707", Kashmira said with amusement in her voice and beckoning the two males to come and ...tand before them. Meena smiled at her and waited until the two males reluctantly walked over to them. Their reluctance was palpable, they seemed to want to crouch down into a huddled position as they moved slowly. She felt one set of eyes were pleading while the other set was resigned and panicky at the same time. She pressed the red button on. “I mean you and Rebecca…” She fell silent, letting me fill in the gap.“I’m not following you.”Jasmine smirked. “Still loyal? Still her pet?”“Teacher’s Pet? You’ll have to do better than that. It’s all so much water under the bridge now.”“Especially now you’re moderately rich and successful.” She paused. “If, hypothetically speaking, I wanted your take on Rebecca, what would you say?”That was easy. I’d rehearsed it. “That I wouldn’t be where I am without Miss Langton. I may not have ended up a. It was then I noticed a woman come in the cafe and look round for somewhere to sit, I indicated that she could sit at my table and she came over and sat down, followed by the waitress and she ordered a coffee and a cheeses sandwich. "Hi, thank you for letting me sit with you, it is busy today. My name is Becca." she said to me. "Hi Becca I'm John, and it is quite alright there is room." I replied as I went back to typing. As I worked I was sneeking a look at Becca, she seemed to be around. -----.-----One of the cities we traded with was Ctesiphon (On the Tigris River near present day Salman Pak, about twenty miles south of Baghdad), the capital of the Sassanid Empire. While they had seen our smaller ships, they hadn’t seen our mortars or rifles in action. The soldiers aboard our ships generally stood guard using the long Mongol bows unless the rifles were warranted. I’m sure the Sassanids had heard stories about our weapons, though. Perhaps, like the Saxons, they felt the stories.