Pāhonoa te oro

The night had already fallen... long before anyone moved... There were no lights... no fire... no sound... Only shadows... stretching across the endless land... The body of Genghis Khan... lay still... Covered... wrapped... hidden from the world... No ceremony... no grand ritual... no words spoken aloud... Only silence... The men who stood around him... did not cry... They did not speak... They only waited... Because they had been given an order... An order... th