Mentally washed clean, he wondered how the earlier hallucination-the bloody deck of the houseboat-could have occurred.

He looked down where she pointed, at the bloody deck where Pincer had lain.

The ribbon of guts snapped and Sali screamed for the last time and died on the bloody deck.

Like arthritic old men they moved slowly across the bloody and body-strewn deck to the rope Gursun indicated.

Another Sea Master went down also, to lie on the bloody decks of the yacht.

They dropped their weapons with a clatter to the bloody deck and then knelt.

My blade ringing against those of my foes, I fought my way across the bloody deck, quarter neither being asked or given.

They surged back and forth, slipping on the bloody decks, shouting and hacking at each other.

I saw a pirate in terror leap over the side, then the rest of them followed, leaving us in command there on the bloody deck!