A blue dot crept into the picture.

One Ecolitan occasionally made minor power and course adjustments as slowly, ever so slowly, the blue dot that was the Smith on the representational screen crept closer to the red dot that Nathaniel had placed over the planet.

A yellow dot crept along the line.

Four red dots were already creeping around the globe toward us.

Not that she really needed to; the voice from the lead cargo shuttle was clear and crisp, and she watched the three crimson dots creep closer on her targeting display and wished the assault shuttle's controls felt a bit more familiar.

The red dot marking their position on the sonoran chart crept around the tip of Florida, up the Atlantic coast, and out into the ocean - a mite creeping toward Iceland.

The two dots on the screen crept closer and closer to each other and Kubera-the outer gas giant-and its scattered moons and dust envelope.

A dot of light crept across it with infinitesimal speed.

Nobody went there now -neither Master nor Blood-Givers - yet the red dot crept up and up, level after level, until there were no more numbers, until, Korul knew, her lift must be at the topmost terrace of the city.

At sunset we saw a tiny string of dots creeping through a huge white shadow seven thousand feet below: a landboat caravan that had left Erhenrang a day ahead of us.