"Why hello, girls. If you could, please try to be quiet in here; William is working on reports." Lady Tavington greeted Jae and Jula at the door of her and Col. Tavington's private chamber.
"Sure." replied Jae. "Anyway, good morning."
"So, how did your meeting go with the lord general?" Lady Tavington asked, picking a whimpering Braden up from his cradle and rocking him back and forth in her arms.
"Awkward." Jula replied.
"What did he want to know?"
"Oh, just where we were from, how we got here.." Jae replied, trying to sound as casual as possible.
"And what did you tell him?"
"Not much. Just that we were loyal and that we couldn't exactly tell him where we were from because the situation is complicated."
"Really?" Lady Tavington cocked an eyebrow. "How complicated?"
"Um..."
Jula stared at Jae.
"Well, maybe you'll believe us..."
"Yes?"
Jae took a deep breath.
"Lady Tavington, we're from the year 2005."
"Really now..."
Lady Tavington gave them a mildly surprised look.
"Hold on." Jae said quickly and ran off to the room where her and her sister had stayed the night before and grabbed her cell phone from the bag she had brought with her to Middleton Place.
"Here." she said re-entering the Tavingtons' chamber. "Look at this."
Jae held out her cell phone.
Lady Tavington gasped softly as she took the small electronic device from Jae and held it in her hand.
"What is this?"
"It's a cellular phone." replied Jula. "We use them to converse with people. Unfortunately, it won't work here though. There's no service. But I'll explain that later."
"What's going on you three?" Col. Tavington suddenly spoke up. "What are you talking about?"
"William, you might want to come here and look at this."
"Look at what, Mary?" he asked getting up from his desk.
Lady Tavington held out the phone to him and he took it from her, eyes slightly wide, his left eyebrow slightly raised in curiosity.
"What does this mean?" he asked.
"Sir, you were right in suspecting us." Jae said softly. "Were not exactly from here. Well, we are, but we're from the future; the year 2005, to be exact."
"My god.." Col. Tavington whispered softly.
"We are loyal, though." Jula added.
"Colonel, we know what will happen in this war." said Jae gravely.
"The end results, you mean?" Lady Tavington inquired.
"Yes." Jula replied.
"You won't like what happens." Jae whispered.
Lady Tavington's brow furrowed with concern.
"Thankfully, I have my history book with me." Jae added quickly to ease some of Lady Tavington's anxiety.
"What do you mean?" Col. Tavington asked tensely.
Jae looked up at him and smiled.
"Colonel, I believe we may be of some very valuable use to you."