[i]Alric's cavalry charged had managed to escape the flanking assault on Cain's end, yet the Tribune's own soldiers were too distracted to do anything to stop the cavalry charge, other than blindly attack. Some horses fell to the earth with crying whines, with cleaved legs, or a spear ramming through their bodies. Alric would be victim to such an attack: as a Tribune lancer would thrust her javelin towards his steed's side.[/i]