Formation of 2 New Nations (2/3)

In a forest near Mosul 

"AHH!" 

A desperate scream was heard, filled with dread and a hint of disappointment. 

Ezidi Serwan stood in front of a dead body with a tired expression on his face. 'What does it make him—the eighth?' he thought to himself while leaning onto a nearby tree, panting and out of breath. 

Around him, Barzan, Tawfan and other Yazidi warriors were no different either; all of them were dead tired. They had been fighting for the last 12 hours without stopping even for an instant. 

From the start of their operation to its end and eventually retreating to the forest, they had been fighting for a whole 10 hours. Unfortunately—or fortunately, depending on how you looked at it—the military elites who had left for Arabistan to reinforce Basra came back and learned about the death of their family.