CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
Remi sat low in the back seat of the Jeep, gripping her pistol. The gunfire grew louder, closer. They could see the control tower of the city airport just ahead, and a smaller control tower in the distance for the private airstrip.
“The security at the airport says there is fighting there,” Captain Kebede said. “It is the pro-government militia. We thought we had defeated them last time, but we were wrong.”
“We have to get in there!” Remi said.
“We will. Tigray cannot lose the Ark. But I cannot ask that you come with me. This is our fight, not for foreigners.”
“He killed an American citizen,” Daniel said. “We’re going in. Just keep us clear of that militia.”
“We will try.”
Remi looked at Daniel and nodded. She didn’t want to take sides in a fight she knew almost n
