Istril led the way down the ridge line, keeping her mount close to the windswept hard rock near the center.
She considered schemes with ropes and pitons and rock-hammers, where she would make a kind of ladder that she could "climb", across the face of the barren windswept rock, all the way to the center.
Two thousand human beings who had sought to escape death in the fires of Singapore, only to find it on the barren, windswept rocks of an unknown Javanese hillside.
Gilthas thought of her words as he trudged over the windswept rock that flowed like a harsh, hard, and barren red-orange sea to the blue horizon.
Gliss, beautiful and nubile, waited on the windswept rock, dark growlerskin pulled tightly around strong, capable shoulders.
As it tumbled, blood sprayed across the windswept rock and black-tipped feathers flew everywhere.
While it's dangerous to assume that those who wish you harm are stupid, it can't hurt to spread out a little gravel just in case someone thinks they can sneak across windswept rock in the dark without being heard.
Suddenly, here, on the windswept rock, after the battle, she experienced certainty and settling, as if the clouds had parted and the sun had illuminated her.
Retief followed, was halfway to the windswept rock below when the thunderous Choo!
Here, the trail opened enough for the men to mount, and the black horses and red-robed warriors filed through the barren and windswept rocks.