Chapter 62
November – 3,390 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
NINSIANNA
"There … there … and there," Ninsianna kept her voice low.
One by one, the young women and boys who made up her archery squad fanned out from the central square and climbed the ladders which gave the Ubaid access to the network of flat roofs which sprawled across the village. Ninsianna slipped her bow diagonally across her torso so it would be out of the way and hauled over a bundle of arrows like a desert lynx hauling its kill up a tree.
The central granary occupied the highest ground in Assur. This ensured that not only was their sacred grain protected from both rats and raiders, but also sat higher than the Hiddekel River, which on occasion rose so far above its banks it flooded the houses in the outer ring. The temp
