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An arid highland plain in Persis, late April of the year 224: cracked pale earth studded with low scrub, a shallow spring welling into a stone-lined basin, a raw line of upturned soil marking the freshly cut ditch, low bare hills closing the horizon. Ardashir's cavalry line stands directly behind the ditch, between it and the spring basin. the spring basin sits inside the same stretch of ground Ardashir's horsemen occupy, close enough for horses to have already drunk from it. the dust cloud trails directly behind Artabanus's advancing line, over the same ground they are crossing. The ditch is about two metres wide and a metre deep, barely a stride but sharp-sided enough to break a charge, and each cavalry line stretches perhaps three hundred metres across the plain. 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