20th October 1574
"And that concludes my report."
Placing down a sheet of papers that contained all the data that he was asked to bring, one of my assistants saluted by raising his two fingers to his temple before leaving the room altogether.
All in all, the chances that I would ever have the time to look through it in any greater detail than what I just listened to, were nigh.
Standing up form behind my desk to give my brain some time to regenerate, I looked out of one of the very first commercially used windows in the entire world.