My hand no longer clutched arms, but closed through cold tendrils darker and thicker than any fog.

It was smooth and flat and the mist held to it, floating and swaying in cold tendrils that swirled around his legs and lower body.

Her voice, when she answered, was like a wisp out of time, a cold tendril, slightly unearthly, so that he felt a brief shiver run through him.

The mist surrounded them like a crowd of importuning beggars, pawing at their legs with cold tendrils.

There was a humming coming from somewhere, and even as she raced forward through the houseboat's darkened interior, she felt cold tendrils of something clutching at her.

A late springtime mist clung to the huge ridges of sand, cold gray tendrils sliding in among the rugged seaside cliffs like the ghosts of long-forgotten ancestors.

As Serena proceeded with her somber escort, cold tendrils of breath rose before her eyes.

But Jo could feel cold tendrils of fear tracing along her veins.

A cold tendril marched down Locklear's spine.