The horse—truest friend to man in war.
There was a reason horses had been used from the first cries of tribal warfare to the thunderous frontlines of World War II. Be it for the devastating shock of a knight's charge, the swiftness of a scout slipping through enemy lines, or simply to haul supply-laden carts across broken terrain—horses had been inseparable from the art of war.
Even where mules outmatched them in sheer endurance and labor, it was the horse that men sang about, wept over, and died beside.
That's why Valen found it strangely disquieting to stand on the eve of a battle in which cavalry would play no part.
