Chapter 38
March – 3,390 BCE
Earth: Crash site
Colonel Mikhail Mannuki’ili
MIKHAIL
Ninsianna moved with frenetic activity, gathering sticks and putting them into a pile. Mikhail stood up help her. She skittered back, her eyes wide with fear.
"Sorry," he murmured.
He sat back down before he terrified her even further.
The pile grew higher. He tucked his wings against his back and made himself as small as he possibly could, deliberately sitting on a low rock which left his feathers dragging in the dirt. Even from here, he could see her eyes glisten with tears.
He poked at the hole in his thigh. Yesterday she'd stitched it up, but there had been no healing songs, no pleasant warm hands, no reassuring smiles, and definitely no massaged wings. Her hand had trembled as she'd pushed the
