Chapter 147
August – 3,390 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
Colonel Mikhail Mannuki’ili
MIKHAIL
Normally, when it got this hot, he found relief by riding an air current, but today the air was so hot and dry that it felt like flying inside a blast furnace. Mikhail veered west until he came to the river, and then headed south, riding a current which carried slightly cooler air. It carried him past the place where he usually turned around; to where Assur's land ended and Eshnunna's began. Nobody ever came down here; few ventured far from the fields unless they wished to hunt. But a well-trodden path had been cut through the reeds to the water.
He fluttered to the ground and studied the tracks pressed into the mud. They were a close match for the ones Little Nemesis had left all over his carg
