Chapter 30 October 3,390 BC Earth: Village of Assur Colonel Mikhail Mannuki'ili MIKKHAIL As much as he'd tried to disabuse these people of their curious notion that, just because some people were born with male reproductive organs and others female, that therefore one gender was incapable of performing the functions of the other, the truth was, it had become such an uphill ordeal that he'd begun to pick his battles. The group that had been called into the Chief's house was not unusual for who gathered here, but rather who was missing. Needa. Pareesa. Alalah. Yalda. All four women were the foundations upon which the Chief was built his army, although each in a different capacity. Without Needa, a scratch could fester and kill a warrior. Pareesa was the fire who inspired his warrio