Sister Verna stepped aside to stand at his shoulder as the women in black formed into a dark knot before the two of them.

There were dark knots in the bands, perhaps giant storms.

At the center of the pit was a tight knot of machinery, dark and unfamiliar.

Finally the star cloud began to thin and a darker knot of matter emerged at its center.

There was a dark knot of men waiting on the road ahead, our advanced scouts.

Before Sebastian could answer, the man was already hurrying across the parched ground toward the dark knot of men waiting with their dusty mules.

Leland blinked and felt a soundless thunderclap from the dark knot in his head.

A sudden ferocious scowl twisted his face into dark knots.

The brows that met above his nose were crinkled into a dark knot.

It ended in a complex knot, dark and massive yet dwarfed by the icecap.