Off to one side the floor suddenly mounded up, no longer stone tiles but a ridge of sun-baked brown rock.

The wind was hot and dry, carrying the scent of dry vegetation and sun-baked rock.

The silence at this point became oppressive, charged like the shimmer of heat waves above sun-baked rock.

All at once, the icy stone beneath her knee became as warm as sun-baked rocks, the very air about her, balmy as summer.

Deckard gritted his teeth against the sting of the sun-baked rocks in his palms and the swirl of plans and possibilities inside his head.

Something hotter and harder than sun-baked rock surged in his gut.

The power that flowed from the sword was a palpable thing, warm and strong, like sun-baked rocks glowing in the hot twilight of a summer evening.

A shadow on a sun-baked rock sent the Terran skidding for cover until he saw that it was cast by one of the questing falcons from the upper peaks.

Cold ones that have just returned from a dive show up as black on the golden, sun-baked rocks.

Without batting an eye, Do-Wop pointed out the window to the desolate Zenobian landscape: scraggly brush, sun-baked rocks, arid streambeds, low hills in the distance.