The telling
The tent is struck, carried and raised again the same way. The nomad's house stands not in a place but in the knowing of it: a house is a method, not a structure.

The Middle World · Birch
A conical tent, poles crossed at the top. Smaller than the khan's — one family's.
The tent is struck, carried and raised again the same way. The nomad's house stands not in a place but in the knowing of it: a house is a method, not a structure.