Aszparuh Page #3

But khan Bayan had given his word

to hold out as long as he can!

There's no Phanagoria

anymore, people!

There's no Great Bulgaria!

Yuvigi Bayan, with his few remaining

warriors, has submitted to the khagan.

He condemned himself and his tribe

to gain more days for you.

What happened to my sons?

Don't tell me!

Both of them?

It was a fierce fight!

Are you hungry?

Should I prepare something?

Are you all right?

Do you need anything?

You keep silent!

- I'm fine, leave me, father!

You don't come to me anymore.

Every evening we stop,

I'm drawn to your tent.

And I know I shouldn't! You're

newly weds, I'll only be in your way!

I thought one thing,

but another has happened!

I'm glad you got fooled

about me, father!

What are you doing?!

- Leave him!

Such is our custom, foreigner!

The man should share his wife's pains!

Stay with her and a few women! When

the child is born, you'll catch up to us!

No! No! No!

She's delirious! Listen to me!

- She's not delirious!

How many times have those

left behind not returned?

They disappear! Help us

get her on this cart!

I came to see how's your wife.

I pray to Tangra that she'll survive!

We're not entitled for millet!

We're not entitled for millet!

The wife had a still-born!

Foreigner, the yuvigi

calls for you!

Thank you for losing your sleep

because of us!

Greetings, yuvigi!

Leave us, Ernike!

Belisarius, I didn't call you for

so long because I had to be alone.

Silence teaches us to think,

my father used to say.

I haven't dared to

ask you before, yuvigi,

but why do you share your innermost

thoughts exactly with me?

Leave this, go to bed!

A hard road awaits us tomorrow,

you should be careful now!

You're very kind to me, Ernike,

and you shouldn't be!

Khazars, yuvigi! In the back of the column!

Several hundred of them!

Dokum, Chepa and Sondok,

follow me with your men!

Iratais, be prepared,

in case you're needed!

There they are!

Before us are those who ruined

Great Bulgaria! Enslaved our brothers!

Let's show them their power

ends here! After me!

Bury the dead! Cut off the right hand

of the remaining Khazars!

So they won't reach for the sword

again! Then let them go!

Let them tell their khagan that here will be

his border with Asparuh's Bulgars! I've said!

We rode and we rode!

Every single day was tedious,

as usual.

Hopeless.

We couldn't just stop

on any flat field.

We had to reach the river Kuzo

or Dnepro, as the Slavs call it.

The deep waters would

protect us from both sides.

Feed us with fish,

water our horses.

We had diminished.

The old ones left their bones

in the boundless plains.

The women diminished as well. Few could

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