A figure drifted slowly across a landscape the color of ashes.

The figure drifted forward and there was a sudden gleam of teeth.

And then two figures drifted out of the shadows and faced her.

And at length there came a time when no new figures were drifting into the ring.

Then the glowing figure drifted toward the door and vanished through the wood panel.

Then the two robed figures slowly rose into the air and drifted away to the south.

Two more figures had drifted out of the gloom.

Outside the window a figure dangling from a rope ladder drifted away, a gun in its hand.

Silhouetted figures drifted around her, black shadows against the light.

The shadowy figure would then drift away, leaving the enlisted men to pass this question on to their fellows.