 Huelun also told him of his ancestors, the Burijin, the blue-eyed heroes, sons of the legendary Blue Wolf. Their voices, she said, rolled us thunder in the mountains. Their hands were as strong as bears' paws, breaking men in two as easily as arrows. In the winter nights they slept naked by a fire of mighty trees, and they felt the sparks and embers that fell upon them no more than insect bites. And the lad listened with elation to those ancient tales in the evenings by the fire of his mother's yurt, while the bitter wind, the same wind that has stirred the steppe with aimless fury on the night he was conceived, howled in the nearby birch tree forests and over the grassy expanses, and howling of the wind sounded like the unearthly lament of ten thousand hungry hounds, like the persistent call of ghostly trumpets, like the cry of dying men and heroes upon a battlefield as broad as the world. Terrible presences from the superhuman sphere kill its spirit of the everlasting blue sky, whom even the bravest read, for one cannot fight at which one cannot see, filled at the freezing starry night, but Temujin was not afraid. In those moments of pride and elation, his deep instinct told him that the killets of the sky never would do any harm to him. On the contrary, they would help him in whatever he would undertake, that he was there chosen one for some great work of power which he knew nothing yet. He felt within himself their frightful impersonal irresistibility, but he was no dreamer and when the morning came he put that might stirred in him by the voice of his racial past and by the voice of the unseen, to the service of the one aim which he understood and pursued as worth its while, his own survival, his own victory over hunger, poverty and humiliation, over the difficulties of his everyday life as an outcast, keeping in mind all the time the first condition of security for him was annihilation of his father's kinsmen with robbing of his order. For young as he was he already knew that he was to spare no man who stood in his way.