Chapter 87
Summer Solstice - June - 3,390 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
NINSIANNA
The first light of dawn shot through skylight, turned golden by the grain-dust as it radiated downward to shine upon the ancient clay statue who sat upon her pedestal. Ninsianna waited with awed anticipation. Exuberant. Fearful…
Outside the temple, jubilant wooden horns announced the arrival of longest day of the year.
"Now?" she whispered.
"Not yet," her father murmured.
The light-ray grew brighter as the sun finished heaving itself above the horizon. She-Who-Is' eye sockets glittered gold, and radiated outwards in a sunburst pattern to shine off eleven colorful gems embedded in the temple wall.
Slender lines crisscrossed, displaying in the air the exact same eleven-pointed star which was engraved int
