He couldn't see; the black motes had obscured his vision, and he could no longer make out his light.

During the day, Kenjo's group discovered traces of an earlier fall on Ierne Island, which a witness remembered as more of a rainstorm littered with black motes than a fall of Thread.

On one side the sun was falling behind the Rim Mountains; on the other, the Great River was painted with golden light on which the black motes of thousands of boats and ships were sharply drawn, as if by the most exquisite calligraphy.

Then black motes milled all over them.

She concentrated on making her fingers close around it as black and red motes spun before her eyes.

His lungs were grabbing for air, black motes spinning before his eyes.