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‘Yet you still smile. You still believe.’ ‘So do the rest. They need to remember, that is all. For now, all they see is slow defeat. They forget they have been... magnificent. They fight alone when all others are lost or manning walls far away. They come at enemy out of the glare of the sun. They have made him halt, turn back, come after us. They have forsaken the world they loved, have let it pass into ruin, all for this.’ Yesugei thought of Qin Xa then, from whom there had never been a murmur of unbelief. ‘They will remember, before the end. Other Legions have failed this test – they let
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‘You wish to know my name?’ he spat, lashing out wildly, catching his enemy as he tried to match the pace. ‘Tamu, of the plains.’ The blades flew, flailing trails of plasma. ‘Tachseer, of the Legion.’ The speed ramped up, the impacts ramped up, the world dissolved into a haze around them. ‘Shiban Khan, of the Brotherhood of the Storm.’