Chapter 80
Orghana continued her speech by recalling anecdotes from the Mongol people's warrior past, taught to her and her sister by her Mother, the former High Priestess. She narrated them in the same details that she had learned and memorized as a child, which delighted the elders of the Tribe Council, who had not heard these tales for a long time, when the last priests of Black Tengrism had had to flee due to the religious persecutions of the Chinese.
Finally, when she was already convinced that she had obtained the attention of the elders, the woman began to show her cards.
“… But we must be sure that the tribesmen will recognize us as the true heirs of Genghis Khan, and turn their backs on Baatar. To achieve this there is only one way, to find an irrefutable argument that proves our identity ... "
The girl, with great theatrical sense, did a few moments of silence and suspended her speech, then she continued speaking.