The Sultan's Guns and the Guns of the Janisaries

Godfried von karback watched a transylvanian gunner being carried off the wall, his brain oozing from a hole in his head. A woman dressed as von back had not seen even the dandies of france dressed. She was tall, splendidly shaped, but lithe. From under a steel cap, escaped rebellious tresses that rippled red gold in the sun. Her supple waist was confined by a flowing sash of green silk into which were thrust a brace of pistols and a dagger. The janisaries took possession of the ruined suburbs, where fragments of the walls gave them shelter.