Chapter 45 December, 3,390 BC Earth: Village of Assur MIKHAIL Nightmarish visions stabbed into his brain as he fought to breathe and his lungs were filled with pain. Disjointed images flashed before his eyes. Malevolent red eyes stared out at him from behind the gaze of the Evil One's latest vessel. It hurt! It hurt! Oh, how it hurt to breathe! A woman screamed his name, her eyes black with power as she drew upon some ancient power too vast for him to comprehend. Her image changed as she fought the enemy who had come to kill him. She and the monster transformed into other creatures, one after another as lifetimes danced before his eyes, fire versus the emptiness which could snuff it out, creation run amok versus destruction, darkness versus a perversion of the light. The woman defeat