Training yard in the Gates of the Moon

[wookie]

"You never seem to hear music in the Vale, it's true. I don't mean to be disrespectful Patrek, but your countrymen are a dour lot. I feel positively cheery by comparison" he smiled to show his jest

[Lord Howland Royce]

Patrek snorts and chuckles. "If every Valeman is more dour than you we would be having a foot in our graves"

[wookie]

Danwell smiled "Perhaps I do over-exaggerate. I blame my grandfather - he was always telling tall tales. He claimed once to have invented the lance while felling trees in the Kingswood"

[Lord Howland Royce]

"No doubt a marvelous progress for warfare all over the world," Patrek smiled.

[wookie]

Danwell smiled "Makes you wonder what they did before, doesn't it? Do you reckon they galloped at each other, then pulled up and dismounted before charging?"

[Lord Howland Royce]

Patrek shakes his head. "I am sure that they jumped at eachother, trying to knock eachother down only to get trampled to death by the second or third line of horses. That must have been in the early stages of tactical warfare atleast."