Chapter 82
November - 3,390 B.C.
Earth: Halifian tents
JAMIN
They came in groups of two or three, the last batch straggling in a larger group of thirty, exhausted and badly wounded, telling a strange tale of men who had disappeared from the back of the line before they'd even made their way to Assur. They'd assumed the men had deserted until they'd tripped upon their bodies on the way back, throats slit, each body arranged neatly with the arms crossed, a large brown feather placed into each victim's hand. The Amorite leader forced Jamin to remain with him, despite his exhaustion from lingering blood loss, so that none of the survivors could stick a knife into his back.
More than eight hundred men had gone against the Assurians, less than three hundred came back, all telling tales of a
