CHAPTER 14
April 1706, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
The marketplace they appeared in, invisible to those around them, reminded Emilia of a scene from the Aladdin animated movie she’d seen as a kid. There were people everywhere, bustling to and fro, while stallholders loudly and frantically called out what products they had for sale, desperate to convince someone to buy. Everywhere Emilia looked people were haggling over goods, the game more of an enticement than the goods themselves. But what struck her the most was the colour – every shade of colour imaginable adorned the people, the stalls, the goods, even the buildings themselves. She loved it!
Visiting such interesting and diverse places was one of the perks of their job. The only issue she had was they never had the chance t
