Part Four, The Confluence Of History: Chapters 25 & 26 Summary

Bisesa uses her phone to take photos of Alexander's fleet. The volcanic rain continues, and after some observation Casey sketches a crude barrow. At first skeptical, Casey puts a prototype together and the next day carpenters put together more than fifty barrows and the day after a hundred more. The Macedonians push them along until mud is reached and they are abandoned. There are few people but eyes are everywhere and Bisesa is fascinated by them and even Eumenes stares at them challengingly. Josh, Ruddy, and Abdikadir discuss religious beliefs and speculate as to the fragmented time and Cecil reports all to Eumenes, playing both ends against the middle.

The Mongols round up their semi-wild herds of horses in preparation for the upcoming march. The Soyuz capsule is loaded on a...