Chapter 102
February: 3,389 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
PAREESA
Pareesa took aim at the wooden implements which made up the second barricade. The carts, broken fence pegs torn out of the goat pens, tables and chairs and reed-woven sleeping pallets, had all caught fire, and it was the fire itself now, not the fragile barricade, which kept the lizard demons apart from the ordinary villagers who had lined up to fight them. Already the fire had begun to grow thin and die. Any moment now, the lizard demons would break through and overrun the villagers poised with spears and atlatls. Her Mama and her Papa looked so small and frail, mere human bodies, built of flesh and blood, so easily injured or killed.
She glanced up at the sky, wishing fervently that Mikhail was here.
"Is he still alive?
