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21 " Hoelun stepped into her tent with thyme in her coatskirts that were hitched up in her belt, and leeks in her hat, that was off. The blue spire of bark she had worn as Yesugei's wife never left her, but often did more than perch on her head. "
― Bryn Hammond , Against Walls (Amgalant One)
22 " ... a snuggery of grandmothers. "
― Bryn Hammond , Imaginary Kings (Amgalant Two)
23 " In steppe epic, a steed and a sister are your trustiest, most intelligent and indefatigable aid: the hero doesn't have to be heroic, but these do. "
24 " Spring weather is turbulent. Every afternoon for a fortnight a gang of bruise-coloured clouds grumbling with their brew slunk up to the massy black stone of the tor. After a face-off of pops and hisses the clouds slunk south, to burst into storm on the horizon. "
25 " And what did Bo'orchu answer? "Kids For Nokods." After that they ran away. "
26 " A howl, neither human nor animal but from a creature not invented yet, punctuated their departure. It was Jochi's battlecry, that he had worked on for years. "
27 " Our children aren't here to fix our mistakes, but to have lives, lives we can't guess at. "
28 " Temujin: "You are hard to get a plan past, my wife the queen."Borte: "Indeed; that is what your wife the queen is for. "
29 " It wasn't that Yesugei was harsh, but people found a sad eye from him very hard to stand. "
30 " A Tartar's heart is a quarter poetry, a quarter fire, a quarter wind of heaven, and a quarter the terror of his enemies. "
31 " They met eyes and had a moment and had to glance elsewhere. "