A Peril at IshtarChapter 34 The War Spills Over
Of course peace did not last very long for us. We had been keeping track of the fighting between Manuel and Ruth and it was clear that both sides were growing increasingly impatient for the war to end. The first indication of how nasty it was getting came when a fight in the colony center spilled out into our corridor. The command post staff alerted the rest of the enclave and Yvette and I dashed to the command post to watch a bloody knife fight between members of both factions. The fight...