"Mousie...! Mousie...!"

This is why I got into history.

In the chapter under construction my protagonist is fleeing from Bad Münster. To throw off pursuit she's abandoning the original plan of a midnight flight from Frankfurt to Athens via...Istanbul (long flight). So there's a short scene in possibly Mainz (which more-or-less was a major Roman city) or...Bingen.

Of "Hildegard von..." fame. And what else does Bingen have? Well, there's the Mäuseturm, the Mouse Tower; a watchtower in the middle of the Rhein. (Built by Romans, rebuilt by Franks, destroyed by French, rebuilt by Prussians...you know the drill). Attached to it is an almost Japanese tale of thematically appropriate revenge on the historical Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz. Which tale is referenced in "The Children's Hour," the Poem by Longfellow!

(And, yes, I did visit Bingen. Can't remember much. There was a museum, I know.)