The telling
The wind is the sky's breath. It carries the shaman's voice and it also strikes and leaves illness: on the steppe 'the wind touched him' names a visitation, not a breeze.

The Middle World · Elements
A gust curling on itself. The one thing on the steppe that never stops.
The wind is the sky's breath. It carries the shaman's voice and it also strikes and leaves illness: on the steppe 'the wind touched him' names a visitation, not a breeze.