Aszparuh Page #4

endure birth and nursing on the road.

Unharness and unsaddle!

We'll stay here till the spring!

We reached the great river

during one of those

horribly monotonous,

hopeless days.

You should've seen how the migrants

reacted to the orders to stop!

Those ruined people, frozen,

closed up in their efforts

to survive!

Men were embracing!

Women were weeping from joy!

God, what a thing is

the simple earthly joy!

Belisarius, does it nibble?

- We'll see!

Belisarius, come by my home

tonight, to have some deer!

Does it hurt?

- It hurts!

Since you're not delirious anymore,

everything's all right!

I know this from my sister, Pagane!

I know you because of her as well!

Thank you for your kindness, Ie!

Why are you laughing?

- You know my name!

It's easy to remember

and it sounds good.

You were lucky!

You were hit above the heart.

I got lucky!

Why do you look at me with the tail

of your eyes? You can look straight.

Yuvigi came last night. He told me

to take care of you till you're better.

Since you have no one...

You're just doing what you're told?

- No!

I have! A mother and sisters,

a bigger and a smaller one.

But they're far away.

- Oh, the poor one!

Neither one's own, nor foreign!

No one's!

Be careful, you're still one-handed!

What are you doing?

- I'm kissing you!

Why?

- Because I like you!

We don't do it like that

when we like each other.

What then?

I think Ernike is dying!

She was healthy till yesterday!

The contractions started this

night, before her term.

Christ, help her!

I heard no screams tonight!

She doesn't scream! She stares

with big and scary eyes!

Yuvigi! Don't enter, yuvigi!

It's not for men there!

She'll die, Belisarius!

She's too weak to feed the life in her.

- She'll survive, I swear!

The world would end if women

would die from giving birth!

They die. During migrations women

die a lot from child-birth.

Your child didn't want

to be born alive, yuvigi!

Go in to say farewell to Ernike!

Bless you for coming

to say goodbye!

I'll feel empty

without you, Ernike!

The winter's leaving!

They day of the green

steppe will come.

And on the road again!

Come on!

What?

Does it still hurt?

We flee from the Khazars, while the

biggest trouble comes from the Slavs!

A horse will disappear!

An arrow will come flying!

The arrow that hit me

was Bulgar, yuvigi!

May the kana boila

kolober come to me!

What made the kanasubigi

call for me?

I want to ask you when will the day of

the green steppe come, so we can go again.

After two big moons, yuvigi.

- Are you sure?

Certainly!

I ask you, because a year ago

you were also quite certain!

Your daughter didn't die from her

own death, oh first among the wise!

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