[ 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 .

`` Talim, could you come and be so kind,'' I said, rattling off into the receiver. I was in the open laboratory that day, located in the rear of the zeppelin. Her voiced called back through the overhead speakerbox, tinny and crackling across the bronze wires from here to her station. 
 
 `` Top off then, sir?'' 
 
 `` Yes m'am, top off if you'd be so kind.'' 
 
 I rolled to the center of the space, affixing myself beside the wide entrance in the floor of the room. The distant hum of railway travel began and all at once came to a showering sparky thrum as she came flipping up from the floor and onto the platform, her transport glove and two cuppas balanced on the other. Taking the one offered, I gave her the kind smile of an old man and she pushed me to the conservatory deck, not far from the engine room, and overlooking the sky formations and industrious planetside cities below. The warmth that spilled from the momentum engines warmed my legs, and the cuppa my knuckles. 
 
 `` I've been seeing you in my pictures again. Talim, am I dreaming again?'' 
 
 `` Mohammad, you are seeing what you wish to see.'' 
 
 `` In the face of every beautiful woman, and fearless man, and emboldened child of the revolution,'' I turned and her beauty was, and always would be, breathtaking. `` I see you.'' 
 
 `` And once the solar storms have charged our homeward lantern, we may return home and complete your process too. Then you may leave your chair and we can --'' 
 
 `` Hush, Talim. We should not spoil the beauty of this morning. Look out at the nimbus clouds that we buffet upon. What a wake we've left behind, this long life of ours.'' 
 
 `` It is only the beginning my love. We know so much more than we did.'' 
 
 `` We may do things right this time,'' I replied. `` Beginning with love.''
