Moto Butaj wrote:"Butaj wonders if they will ever be willing and able to understand us, Sayyeda Khulun. We will take some of them and they will take some of us at the end of this pairing kurultai. Ide Dabo is hopeful and so Butaj should be too. But Butaj played and sang and only Otaku Kitakuhime really reacted. Are they even interested in the soul of out people, or just fear our cavalry and want to tie us down and remake?"
Butaj responds quietly.
She nods along and says in a more private tone, “They are only here to get what they can from us, but many mock our ways I hear from the elders. They do not know the joy of our songs and the passion that burn in our hearts. We must make them listen and make them learn.”
She frowns and adds, “Just maybe we can learn something from them.”
“We are home, cousin, but we have yet to make this our home. Be mindful, these strangers speak silk pretty words and will try to deceive us.”
She pats him on the shoulder and adds, “As to your songs, they do not show their joy as we do, but I am sure your voice has touched them. They would have to be stone to not be moved.”