Chapter 104
July - 3,390 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
Colonel Mikhail Mannuki’ili
MIKHAIL
The villagers watched as they trudged past the training field; him laden down with dozens of arrows, while Pareesa walked beside him, carrying a half-dozen bows. Nearly three hundred warriors toiled beneath the hot summer sun, naked and sweaty except for their loincloths, stabbing at targets. The place reeked of sweat, testosterone and itchy balls.
“Ready,” Jamin shouted. “Thrust!”
A large group of men moved to his command, armed with the fighting-spears; thicker and longer than the slender atlatl-darts preferred for hunting antelope.
“I didn’t realize you had this many warriors,” Mikhail said.
“We do,” Pareesa said. “But most haven’t fought since the war against the Uruk.”
He took note of an
