Chapter 52
May – 3,390 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
Colonel Mikhail Mannuki'ili
MIKHAIL
He tossed and turned like stag pursued by a pack of hounds, only instead of his earlier nightmares, a golden-eyed huntress chased him across the heavens. He woke up, gasping, the urge to go to her so overwhelming that it took every ounce of strength not to indulge the urgency in his loins.
"I made a promise," he groaned.
He got up from the folded blanket he'd used as a bed and rummaged through the dark until he found the woolen cape she'd cast off last night, clean with soaproot [104] and something feminine. He buried his nose into the collar and inhaled her scent. The distance between them almost broke his resolve far worse than when she'd slept across the aisle from him, naked except for her loi
