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Another Annunaki was out there

The mother ship had detected his presence immediately, identified him as one of her children.

“Ullikummis,” Enlil muttered, the name lost in the sharp intake of his breath. “So you have returned, my son.”

It should have been impossible, Enlil knew. He had expelled his child into space, sent him to float among the stars for the duration of his near-endless life. And yet here he stood on Earth once again, and with an army of apekin at his beck and call.

But Enlil did not question the facts presented to him. Ullikummis had beaten the odds and returned, and that was only right because he was his son—and what would any son of Enlil be if he could not defy the odds?

Tapping a quick sequence out on the palm link to Tiamat, Enlil called forth the Igigi who hid within the shells of the reborn Annunaki. “We still have much to do.” He spoke to the empty room as if reminding himself. “More than I conceived. Let us begin.”

Tiamat trembled as her mighty cargo doors opened for the very first time.