Author's Note: From Peter Morwood's 'The Dragon Lord':
The horseman emerged from a silent swirl of fog that drew back like the curtain of an ill-lit stage: a black-clad man, astride a coal-black horse. Both were featureless silhouettes against the slow shift of grey, sable outlines lustrous with a sheen of condensed moisture.
The horse moved. Its hooves struck hollowly against damp-slick paving slabs, muted echoes slapping up and down the street between the blankly shuttered houses. Three pages only. Three heavy clanks of iron on stone; a blacksmith sound. Then silence once more as reins were twitched and the black horse stopped.
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I had trouble creating the highlights around the edge of the horse and horseman - please do not penalise me for bad masking in these areas, the fault lies with my (in)ability to do the highlights any better.
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