Jack Weatherford

So she and the grandmother go auction again, and so they're loaded into a cart to go away.

So Temujin comes in, and there's a full moon that night, so they could see what they're doing.

And he's really searching for her.

He's not paying too much attention to the battle.

And he's calling for her, and she hears his voice.

She knows who it is.

She jumps off the cart, and she runs to him.

And they're reunited, and he grabs her, embraces her, and then he said, this is the goal.

This is why we are here.

We don't need anything else.

He was very clear about that.

Yes, aside from the things, yes, his first full-on military engagement.

Now, along the way, in addition to escaping all these horrors, he had killed his older half-brother, Bechtel.

The killing of Bekhter, that's one of the things that's totally unknown outside of the secret history of the Mongols.

None of the Persian chronicles, none of the Chinese chronicles, none of them knew about this until the secret history was deciphered and translated.

But Bekhter was the older child of Xochitl,

And the older brother has complete authority over the younger siblings in Mongolian society.

They have to refer to him with a special pronoun all the time, ta, and he refers to them as chi.

It's like a formality.

And his word goes, he is the father in the absence of the father.