Chapter 78

At the end of her tour around the posts, Orghana put the saber in its scabbard but did not return to where her companions were; she directed instead her horse to a place close to that of Temük Khan's box.

Jack, Taro, Ives and Aman followed her activities with their eyes, and soon they saw that when the woman stopped the horse, Colonel Khulan approached her and handed her something that they could not see from the distance.

Upon receiving it, the Princess again prodded the steed, which galloped off again in the direction of the posts. The companions could see that as she approached the static targets, the rider was leaning over the left side of the horse's neck and when she was still about sixty yards away from the center post she was holding with an arm an arch; the other arm stretched out the rope on which a long feathered arrow had already been attached. The horse raced about twenty yards at full speed while the woman only held onto her saddle with her knees.