Chapter 15
February – 3,390 BC
Earth: Crash site
Colonel Mikhail Mannuki’ili
MIKHAIL
She skittered out the crack they'd been using as a doorway.
"Wait!" He lurched to his feet, but tilted off-balance. His splinted wrist came down on the console. Pain stabbed into his damaged lung. Darkness enveloped his field of vision. He broke out into a cold sweat as Ninsianna's voice grew far away.
He sat back down before he passed out. Right onto his awkwardly splinted wing.
A pair of voices drifted through the cracked hull. A man, that much was certain. But while her voice rose sharply with anger, the man's voice remained measured and calm.
Ninsianna stepped back in and made an exaggerated gesture to communicate she'd invited the unknown man to step inside.
Mikhail laid the pulse rifle on h
