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[aw] Roebuck moon - Batu - 6/28/2026
claiming the steppe! Ayoka welcome too <3 single replies welcome, batu will be leaving with the tianlong travelling party & oyun is in charge!
Manifest is the vigor of the khaan under open sky, through greening sea and lures of tall altargana. The long river valley is hemmed by hills, blocking the bulk of harsh windstreak. Driving the herd to a muster, Batu raises a rough howl, saturating the soil with his stream.
“Camp will be made here until the season turns.” In the vale, against the side-winding river. “Mark it well. Let all who cross the steppe know mongolia has come home.”
He waits for the return of others. He waits for Khatar. A counsel of heaven and earth deems their awakening here. Saranai's arrival confirms this, for the khagan's gifted physician would have been dismissed only for a grave cause. Seven months would find the steppe mourning their dead. But grief cannot ensue; there is only the work of rebuilding.
Eye is kept for Sayana and Tselmuun , the widowed noyakin. They have no harem to dig their shelter, no nokud to ride out and bring back game. These things he must do before returning to the tianlong— to be trapped in place, amid excess of ponderous possessions and pounded-wall pavilions.
In his absence, “Khatun, Oyun is to be heeded.” Only to his sister does the khaan speak of this relationship with the han. “The royal party is travelling. Their land will be under lighter guard for some months. Learn its entry points, but do not rush. We must not tread the same road which buried Nazgur.”
RE: [aw] Roebuck moon - Khatar - 6/28/2026
RE: [aw] Roebuck moon - Oyun - 6/29/2026
It's of mild concern that Batu is to be away shepherding the han. Oyun gives him trust the khaan is entitled, therefore she does not doubt his time from them will be spent carving the footholds on which they can advance their claim, but rage is a thing that loathes to be tempered.
With knowledge now that their people are returning, resurfacing, that Alukhai's name is spreading, can he bear to stifle himself in the coming months? He must.
Khatar speaks and it implies staying behind; her chest aches to consider this.
"I trust this to be known," she addresses the other in kind, "But any who wish to venture Tianlong's route are to seek my permission before doing so. Do not make me question your whereabouts."
For now she is their keeper, is she not?
With knowledge now that their people are returning, resurfacing, that Alukhai's name is spreading, can he bear to stifle himself in the coming months? He must.
Khatar speaks and it implies staying behind; her chest aches to consider this.
"I trust this to be known," she addresses the other in kind, "But any who wish to venture Tianlong's route are to seek my permission before doing so. Do not make me question your whereabouts."
For now she is their keeper, is she not?