Chapter 92
Those in hell must eat from a tree
like molten brass that burns their bellies.
Then boiling water will be poured on their heads.
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—Quran 44:43-48
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GITA
Gita peered through air hole at the newest batch of sobbing women. There was something familiar about the way they dressed, with sewn robes instead of the shawl-dresses most other tribes used as clothing. One of the women pounded upon the door and cried out in a language which seemed vaguely familiar.
She formed an image and pressed her hand against Xihuital's warm, sensitive inner flesh.
Women. Friends.
He needed to understand these women were as much prisoners as he was.
She backed out of the air shaft into the larger artery and resumed her journey through the tunnels in search of food. In the middle of the ship w
