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The high basalt steppe of southern Syria in late summer: treeless plain of black stone scattered over pale burnt grass, low volcanic hills on the horizon, and a river gorge cut several hundred metres straight down through the plateau with sheer stepped walls. the marching column is on the same flat plateau surface that ends at the gorge rim ahead of it, as one unbroken surface. the dust plume rises from the column's own feet and hooves and drifts to one side. the baggage train follows in the column's own track, its dust merging with the tail of the plume. The column's men are specks a few pixels tall; the gorge beyond them is deep enough that a whole army on its floor would be invisible from here. 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