Chapter 93
February: 3,389 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
PAREESA
Pareesa lived in a smallish house with far too many people and not enough room for them all to spread out. She slept in a bed with her grandmother and her little sister, and only inches away snoozed four of her younger brothers. As she breathed deeply in the carefree sleep of a thirteen-summer girl who'd spent the previous day training, she ignored the frantic warning buzz which tried to rouse her from her happy dreams of swordplay and alert her that the rumbling sound which shook their house was not her granny snoring in her ear.
"Pareesa?" her little sister Zakiti whimpered. "I think the house is falling down."
An explosion reverberated through the village.
Pareesa shot upright and threw off her covers. She crawled over
