Chapter 65
November – 3,390 BC
Earth: Outside Assur
JAMIN
Jamin rubbed his aching shoulder and adjusted his sling.
"I should be with them," he said to Marwan, the desert shaykh.
The mouth that spoke said "you are useless with your arm bandaged up in a sling," but that second, silent mouth, the scar which ran horizontally from Marwan's lips to his ear, said something different. It said "let the Amorite scum expend their lives upon your people's walls and leave more gold for the second wave which will move in behind them to take out your real enemy."
A variety of languages peppered the troops Kudursin, the Amorite leader, commanded. Halifian, Amorites, Jarmo, Hassuna, Meriyabat, Uruk and Samarran, over 850 warriors. Not all of the tribes bought with lizard-gold were necessarily hostil
