Chapter 49
February – 3,390 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
JAMIN
All around him, the walls whispered. The housekeeper shook his shoulder.
"Go away, Urda!" Jamin swatted at her hand.
Sunlight streamed through window, stabbing into his throbbing brain. The housekeeper shook him again.
"Tell Father I am sick—" his stomach clenched. "Shut the curtains. Siamek can oversee the sentries."
He tried to pull up his blanket to cover his eyes, but the housekeeper kept grabbing it and tugging it off his body. He felt for her hand, but it was large and warm and…
…furry?
Jamin opened his eyes and instantly regretted it. Pain throbbed from the back of his head.
"Ow…" he groaned.
Why was he sleeping in the middle of the alley?
The 'housekeeper' nibbled gleefully on his cape. Mid-sized and brown,
