Jack Weatherford

It was very interesting.

I think as children, he was too preoccupied with staying alive and trying to find fish and roots to eat and things like that to really be pining for her all the time.

But for whatever reason, she came and it could be that

her family liked him in some way or that she remembered him or that she had no other suitors.

Because at 17, she should have been married, actually.

So I can't explain why, but it was certainly a strong love story after the fact, if not before.

I mean, those two were loyal to each other throughout their lives.

She was, I would say, the most important person to him after that.

He went to literal war.

He risked everything.

He was willing to die.

He was willing to kill.

He was willing to die in order to get her back.

And he got her back.

And now he's reestablished his relationship with Jamukha.

And so they decide to stay together.

And they all go off to the Horonok Valley.

This becomes a huge issue forever.

It's one of those things that to this day, almost, it's an issue in what happens.

But as he says much later in life, when his own sons rebel against him, and they call that first child a mercant bastard,