It was difficult to tell inside the hot, rank darkness.

For a long time he lay awake in the hot darkness of the room, aware that at last everything was possible.

The room was almost in darkness, hot and oppressive.

The still hot darkness wrapped her like a dream.

We will become food for the scavengers who wait below in the hot darkness of the depths.

He faded into the hot darkness outside the doors.

But that had been a lifetime ago, in the freedom and frenzy of hot darkness.

She waited what seemed hours in the hot darkness.

The world sits in the close, hot darkness as if holding its breath, waiting for a cool breeze that never comes.

Chapter Five shaft of summer sky looked in upon their hot, heavy darkness.