They surged through the broken door and stopped short, staring at a blank stretch of water.

They were as the veydeen says, blank stretches of sand.

They were beside a blank stretch of industrial wall, fencing some sort of yards.

"How do we climb the Ladder in the long blank stretches between the ledges?"

Then a stretch still blanker than the first.

Between them a small window showed a blank stretch of wall on the other side of the alley.

The door swung open toward the window, going back against a blank stretch of wall.

Except for the center, where a stupid harpy crashed through them and left a blank stretch.

Exposing a blank stretch of dull gray wall.

But the blank stretches in his thinking process began to come more frequently, and he surrendered to the delightful lassitude that was creeping over him.