Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river.

The jackal cried again up above the camp and Mbejane's head turned towards the sound.

"I have not seen them before," he cried above the tumult.

Lindy cried above the roar and crackle of the fire.

'Keep your places,' he cried above the shrill music of the steelsilver coat.

The bird cried above them; transfixed, they followed it with their eyes.

"Oh, you who run in the vanguard of your human herd," the Susuru leader cried above the intolerable sound.

"Ride ahead and find the nearest inn and fetch help," she cried above the storm.

But the rifle cracked again, unmistakable this time, and suddenly I could hear wild human cries above the noise of the engine.

Someone laughed, far away, and I could hear seagulls crying above the pigeons.