The War (5)

Ziu stared in the microphone and the monitor in front of him, which had satellite imagery. There was nothing he could make out in it. "What does this mean?" he pointed at the screen, turned his serpent-yellow slit eyes towards the General and asked. 

The General was shocked. For a moment his body movements froze and he became speechless. His breath became shaky. 

Ziu asked again, this time louder than before, "What does this mean? Answer me!"