The cold darkness settled as she walked across the campus center park.

As they stood in the cold darkness, neither wanting to let go, it started to snow.

Out in the cold darkness of the Belt, where no one would know for many months, perhaps years, that the man was dead.

They walk slowly through the cold darkness, past the still fountain.

The man ran ahead to open the door for him as they emerged into the cold darkness.

They looked at each other for a moment and then ran back in the cold darkness.

I felt us sliding to a halt, in cold wet darkness.

Before he could process his new environment, another transformation occurred, this one taking him deep within a cold and remote darkness.

Alone in the cold blue darkness, he began to weep.

The sound of the rain faded as they moved into the cold darkness and he looked at his watch.