“Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.”

“We were like astronauts floating through a starless universe.”

“There is only darkness, starless and complete. The waves glitter like a million dull knives.”

“A wandering knightwambling in an endless roadThinking to himselfWhere the others are?Taking care of what?Who am I?but a fading footprinton a dark empty landunder a starless skyseized by roaring shadowsand delusive hopes”

“We could build a boat, you and I, and sail to the moon and back.”

“Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.”