12 Talrun
There was something about the name Mossara that tugged at some long-forgotten memory I couldn’t quite dredge up. I did some quick searches on various news channels and quickly found out who her parents were and how they’d been killed.
Sammisa and Rodissaris—these Mordanian names were tongue-twisters, sometimes—were Mordanian government officials who had come to help with the occupation. But they were anthropologists, not just paper-pushers. Their job had been to study the Daqtarians and our culture and make recommendations to the Mordanians.
They’d been killed over a year ago during the bombing of a village far from Koldas. They’d apparently been studying the rural populations of Daqtar and some kind of altercation between the villagers and Mordanian miners had led to a larger
