BORTE: They will come soon. (Aside) Well, it would not be superfluous to feed this one too. GENGHIS KHAN: What are you muttering over there? BORTE: (As if not hearing the last phrase) You seem to be rid of your old mood. You’re beginning to come to your senses. Now we can start the main conversation. Genghis Khan looks at her in extreme excitement. Borte walks back and forth, takes a cup in her hand in front of Genghis Khan, and sips water from it a couple of times. GENGHIS KHAN: (Observing Borte’s actions) I see you are tormented by thirst. BORTE: Before dying, a person is thirsty. GENGHIS KHAN: What is it; you’re about to die now? BORTE: Yes. As soon as I speak my piece, you will definitely take my head. GENGHIS KHAN: If you want to be rid of your head, then speak. Borte, approaching Genghis Khan from the side, stands silently. Her eyes bore at him and then she turns away. BORTE: You said that until you see the body of your son with your own eyes, you will not believe the statements about his death. Here, behold this. Borte unties the knot of the bundle wrapped in blue silk and gives it to Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan cannot take his eyes off it, but not understanding anything, sits in bewilderment. GENGHIS KHAN: What is it? BORTE: The only piece left of Jochi. GENGHIS KHAN: This little bit? What kind of piece is this? BORTE: Jochi’s thumb. GENGHIS KHAN: His thumb? Jochi? Really? BORTE: Korshi found it in a pile of dirt and gave it to me. GENGHIS KHAN: How so? If the thumb is found, why is the body not found? BORTE: It hasn’t been found yet. He probably turned into an angel and flew into the sky. It seems that by this he has made it clear that all the value acquired in those bloody battles is not even worth one of his fingers. GENGHIS KHAN: My Jochi… My power and protection… My lion… My warrior for an unrealisable dream. (Putting the thumb to his forehead, he weeps). BORTE: Do you remember, Temujin, scattered corpses all around, the wounded moaning, and stepping over the corpses a maddened Aishan came to us.
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