Patricia Taylor
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The Grand Vizier is graciously having his breakfast while testing his twenty plus years old son, Candarli Ibrahim, reading out and memorizing a chapter of the Quran when the eunuch broke the atmosphere hurrying in panting up and down, totally unlike the usual standard set for a servant of the imperial house. The Grand Vizier Candarli Halil Pasha gave this little eunuch a disgruntled look as he wiped his mouth frowning with a piece of dampened perfumed hanker chief, leaned back on the cushion and ordered.…-
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Later that day, down the stairs outside the government manor of Thessaloniki, a gigantic brawny figure can be seen going around in circles under the dimming sun light, with still some blood stains and blemish on his armour. It is our Varangian leader, no, foot man Yuri. He is anxiously waiting over here for the conference on top to end, he even rejected the guard's invitation to go for dinner first, waiting here persistently for hours waiting for some one. Finally, his target appeared wearing a linen…
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"Why, sir, for my part I say the gentleman had drunk himself out of his five senses" - The Merry Wives Of Windsor: Act 1, Scene 1, Willian Shakespeare Antonius dropped the blood dripping head on the table and stared at Yuri kneeling down there in disbelief. "You killed Nikolas?" Yuri's body shook as he stared back remaining complete silent. Antonius raised his voice. "Nikolas contributed the most towards us taking this God damn city, and I have not awarded him with any thing yet, now you are telling…
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"Do not be among those who drink too much wine, among those who gorge themselves on meat, for a drunkard and a glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe one with rags." - Solomon, Proverbs 23:20, 21 Nikolas stretched his head forward revealing his sun tanned neck out facing right towards Yuri while teasing him continuously, while his steward and servant have all ran far away the moment after Yuri pushed Nikolas down from his donkey, afraid that their master may end up getting the two of…
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"…Only if we can take this entire place back on to our ships!" "Perhaps we can tear down this manor separating it in to different portions loading them on to our ships, and then sail away with it!" Helio on the side joined in the fun. "Hahahaha…" The others broke in to a chain of laughter. "If our bunks and quarters on the ships are as beautifully decorated like this, I would get my wife and daughter on to the ships as well!" "Even if it is as beautiful as this the stinky stench of yours will…
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"Non quia difficilia sunt non audemus, sed quia non audemus, difficilia sunt" - Church of England congregation "… It is so good to see the double headed eagle flag hanging in the city again." Hearing this by instinct Antonius opened his mouth wanted to say some thing in comfort of the old man, but his brain turned blank not knowing what to say. With a bitter smirk he gave this senior a tight hug patting him on the skinny back, and replied softly beside his ears. "Yes, indeed, it is so God damn good…
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"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill Julian got hoaxed, that bloody mechanism to open the gate to the outside is not located in this bloody tower, this tower is instead used for the sole purpose of over looking the entire port of Constantine together with a region of Thessaloniki, and the lower portion of this tower is used by the defenders to store ammunition and weapons, there is not even a single metal gear or piston can be found in every corner of the fortress meaning that…
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"History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends." - Karl Marx "Okay! We have rested enough! Let's get moving!" The thirty plus men got up carrying their blades and axes in hand clumsily with the support of one another, and carefully prowled out of the battlements heading right towards the tower in the Eastern side of the fortress, where they speculated earlier on that it contains the mechanism to…
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Julian now only has thirty two men by his side exempting those fellows he called out just now, and now they are going to challenge the seemingly mission impossible: Climb over this eleven meters tall walls, with little assistance of tools and machineries, no protective gears in case they fall, and definitely no backup forces behind them in support. Under the walls Julian led the team climbing the first step clenching the hook in his hands on to the gaps between two bricks, then made a jump thrusting…
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"But the nearest Ottoman out post can send their reinforcements here in less than an hour!" Julian felt like giving this lazy man a tight slap to let him better realise what is going on in the world around him. "Relax, Julian. The reinforcements will not come, at least not from these outposts around." Nikolas stopped spending his time on Julian and went back to packing and loading these valuables on to his ships. "They won't come… What do you mean!" "Just trust me! They will not come!" And…
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