Chapter 43
December, 3,390 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
JAMIN
Assur's central square was the only place big enough for all of the villagers to gather at once. All hours of the day people lingered here, but not tonight. Tonight, the only people in the square were doubled over in pain, clutching the buckets of the water which had been their downfall. An odd sense of satisfaction over their misery blended with remorse. These were his people. No! These people had cast him out after choosing the winged demon over him … and now he'd returned to make them pay.
Jamin stared at the temple of She-who-is, faithless goddess, the goddess who had turned against him the same way that Ninsianna had. An odd pang of apprehension settled into his gut. Once upon a time he'd sloughed off all talk of gods as
