Chapter 7
November 3,390 BC (about 20 minutes before the ambush)
Earth: Mesopotamian Plain
GITA
With the onset of the rainy season, each year the People of the River sent delegates to a grand reunion where traders, craftsmen, and most importantly, the chiefs, discussed issues which, if left unresolved, sometimes festered until one village went to war against another. This year the delegates met in a rocky strip of desert between the two most powerful villages, Nineveh and Assur, who were often at odds even though, technically, they were all supposed to be allies. While the smaller villages had welcomed the Assurian destek ekibi or 'B-Team' delegates as Mikhail had christened them, Nineveh was less than enthused to be saddled with a scrawny, black-eyed girl and the portly son of a wheel
