Chapter 130
July – 3,390 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
Colonel Mikhail Mannuki’ili
MIKHAIL
They trudged down from the village, singularly, and in groups. The men he'd been charged with training. Young and old, herders and craftsmen. Farmers, with their clothing still stained from the fields. A few stood proud and tall, men who could take down a boar with a single spear, but most clustered together in nervous flocks; they were only here because the Chief had ordered it.
Over two hundred men! What in Hades had he gotten himself into?
Next marched the elite warriors, their cadence subdued. Jamin was absent. They positioned themselves to his right; not out of any deference to him, he was certain, but from a lifetime of deferring to their Muhafiz.
The last person to appear was Kiaresh, th
