Beyond is a faint glimpse of the dimly starlit desert.

It was a simple matter to mount their backs and cluck, sending them into the starlit desert.

Two Ghosts whisper, in a starlit desert.

She stood beside him on a smooth patch of starlit desert, stared around.

She strode into starlit desert, exploring with her senses as she had done as a child.

Then the bronze doorway was before him, and Conan felt the night wind blowing across the desert, and saw the stars, and the starlit desert across which streamed the great black shadow of the pyramid.

He returned to L.A. by night, by Greyhound bus, drinking bitter coffee and reading a rest stops,watching the country unspool past his window,the starlit desert and highway and small sleeping towns, the whole wide-open landscape folding around him like an envelope or a concealing hand.