![]() The driver, ominously large and cloaked in black, hauled on the reins, hurling an oath down at the team of dapplegrays, but his voice was lost beneath the heavy thud of pounding hooves and the rattle of churning wheels. ![]() In the calm that followed the coach’s passing, the murky liquid trickled slowly back to mirrored pools pocked with droplets or neatly patterned with ripples. It jolted and tottered precariously over the cobblestones, its high wheels sending mud and water splattering. The miserable night masked the passage of a carriage that careened through the narrow streets as if it fled from some terrible disaster. Low-hanging clouds dribbled fine droplets of moisture which mixed with the soot spewed forth from London’s towering chimneys before falling as a thin film that covered every surface. Acrid smoke stung the nostrils and throat, for in every home fires were stirred and stoked against the seaborne chill that pierced to the bone. The threat of winter was heavy in the air. ![]() NIGHT GRIPPED THE CITY with cold, misty darkness. ![]() ![]() No fault of choice, nor better beast you’d ever take Long of fang, the fiercest eye and talons, not You’ve sought your treasures, forced him to the The beast has served and flown the earth around. ![]()
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