Chapter 70
November – 3,390 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
Merariy (Immanu's brother)
MERARIY
"Gita! Stop that pounding!" Merariy shouted in a drunken stupor.
He looked up from the table he had fallen asleep over, grasping his vat of pomace, the fermented second-brewing of the spent rinds of barley, olive skins, and fruit rinds to take another sip. It was a nasty-tasting brew, but it was all he'd been able to afford ever since the widow-sisters had refused to sell him any more beer.
"What the hell is making all that noise?"
He was a big man, once as muscular as his shaman brother, but two decades of non-stop drinking had caused that muscle to sag, his skin loose because whenever given the choice, he drank his meals instead of buying bread to feed himself and his daughter. He had wild h
