Chapter 85
February: 3,389 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
YALDA
Few within the village were old enough to remember when Yalda and Zhila's husbands had died. Both sisters had loved their husbands dearly, but with small children to raise, neither had possessed the luxury of willing themselves to die from grief. They had turned to one another, two women who had always been close as sisters growing up, but who had become closer still once they'd combined their households to finish raising their children.
The children had grown up, their sons had been killed in the same war which had brought Immanu and the Chief to power, and their daughters had married men from far-off villages, but the widow-sisters stayed together. After they'd grown too old to labor in the fields, they'd turned to an old f
