[ WP ] : You , a historian , find something odd in your records . The same face , accompanied with variations of the same name , keeps emerging in paintings , drawings , woodcarvings and documents , from a span of several centuries . It looks suspiciously like your assistant .

The more I searched, the more she seemed to surface. It was beginning to feel unnerving. Was this all a coincidence? 
 
 *Was I not alone? * The door suddenly opened. 
 
 `` Anything the matter, sir?'' My assistant asked, peering over at my work. I grabbed my research. 
 
 `` Nothing at all,'' I replied, stashing the last of the papers in my drawer, `` nothing at all.'' 
 
 What had she seen? 
 
 She stared at me. Something in her expression worried me. `` For someone considered to be the best historian in the world, I'm surprised it's taken you so long, to be honest. Why do you think I chose you?'' 
 
 I stared at her in disbelief. What was she admitting to? 
 
 `` 17,000, in case you're wondering. 17,000 years.'' 
 
 ``... What?'' 
 
 `` I've been alive for 17,000 years, give or take a millennia. It's been quite a wild ride,'' she said, smiling. 
 
 I did n't know what to say. This was all so unbelievable. Could it really be? 
 
 `` Why tell me this? Why join me in my research, if you knew you'd be discovered?'' 
 
 She stared at me, and laughed. 
 
 `` Because, Mr Historian, I'm pretty sure I last saw you at the fall of Rome.''
