Editing Cathak Nekuto (section)

==The Phoenix Hatches==
"My son, Hejek, had never Exalted, but I was proud of him just the same.  He knew what he wanted and went after it, and he'd become a fangleader by his twenty-second birthday.  That was also when he wrote to me about his scalelord, Nekuto.  A fire-aspect, like myself, he was a lost egg done well.  But not as well as he would've liked.  His talon was pulling dirt missions while Dynasts received sweeter assignments, he'd trained his men fabulously well, but had no chance to test or advance his skills.  I met Nekuto myself a few times, when Hejek brought him home on leave or when I got to travel for house or Realm.  He was everything that Hejek said he was.

"The Empress had left us by then, and I knew that the hounds in the Deliberative would soon turn their talk of house-sponsored legions into a reality.  I did what I had to - I went to meet Nekuto and offered him my daughter's hand and the name and patronage of my house.  I had him leading a talon in Harborhead not long after that.  Things went from bad to worse quickly, though, with Tepet's failure in the north and Cainan had to pull the wing back home in case things got worse still.  

"But Nekuto wouldn't hear of it.  He'd had his first taste of action as a true commander and he wasn't about to go back to readiness drills.  Even though we might soon have needed him at home, I couldn't bear to bring him back to boredom so soon.  I arranged things with Cainan so that he could keep one scale, Hejek's, and continue on for a two-year tour with the local Wyld Hunt.  I hope that settles my boys down enough to let them rest at home a while - the vultures are starting to circle."

-- ''Cathak Caras, Senator of the Greater Chamber''


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[[Heaven's Mandate]]