Part Three, Encounters & Alliances: Chapters 18 & 19 Summary

The Mongol yells and more men come running. The first walks up to Sable after killing Musa and grabs her breast hard. Kolya tells her not to react. The killer presses his sword against Kolya's neck and Kolya tells him they are Emissaries of Eternal Heaven. The cosmonaut's are tied, led to a yurt and shoved inside. They conceal their sidearms and Kolya believes they are in the thirteenth century. Kolya wonders what happened to Casey.

Eumenes goes to Hephaistion's tent to discuss the issues that arise when an army of this size travels together. Soldiers from the Iron Age urge the scouting party sent by Captain Grove to march for nearly ten kilometers. Hephaistion's usher hurries in and Bisesa and her group are brought to them. Eumenes speaks an old Greek dialect that de...