Cast out to starve in a wooded ravine, Hoelun and her sons cling to life on fish bones and marmot blood while the eldest, Bekter, hoards his catch and lords what little power remains over the rest. When Temujin discovers his brother eating his fill as the family wastes away, he makes a cold choice that wins the children's survival but turns his mother's grief into something close to hatred—and forges the ruthless will that will one day make him khan.

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