Clan-brother would be parted from clan-sister like yellowing leaves before the wind, scattered across the face of the earth and ground into dust.
But even as the thought came, the priest passed another house, and saw their silhouettes moving to and fro... A puff of wind scattered cool droplets in his face.
No sound, nothing but the gentle flurry of leaves as the wind lifted and scattered them like pieces of gold across the grass.
A warm wind scattered fallen oak leaves over the area until there was no sign of the recent disturbance.
Holger couldn't see the smoke from the troll's bolthole; the wind scattered it too fast.
The image wavered and misted as an errant wind scattered hard, dry snow across the ice.
The door banged open and a gust of wind scattered the pages of the Analysis across the floor as Loper plunged through.
Unfortunately the wind scattered it.
Droplets of blood made little patterns on the pavement as the wind scattered them-each, until chilled by contact with the air, a precise 81 degrees Fahrenheit.
Everything motionless and monochrome in dim starshine and occasional moonlight, where only the thin wind scattered little flurries of snow from the spurs and high ledges.