Chapter 115
February: 3,389 BC
Earth: South of Assur
GITA
She feared he might not come, but the chitter of a ground squirrel alerted her that a predator was on the prowl. Gita faded back into the rocks, but it was just Dadbeh. As she'd hoped, he'd come back to retrieve his witness. Gita stepped out from where they'd buried Taziq alive.
"I was kinda hoping you might have already dug him out for me," Dadbeh grinned. His eyes sparkled, and for the first time in months he seemed a little happy.
"It was my intent to leave him there unless his life served a purpose," Gita said. There was no mirth in her eyes; she'd decided to give Dadbeh three days: one to rest; one to bury the dead; and a third for him to hike back out to the place they'd set up their last encampment. She'd been about to
