And westward the valley opened until a distant darkness under the sky told where the forests began.

He heard sounds of the enemy approaching, but as yet he could see nothing in the distant darkness.

A sound rose out of the darkness, faint and distant, but unmistakable: the howling of wolves.

The cave went silent, except for the echoing scream returning from distant darkness.

Kahlan could see the wagon waiting in the distant darkness.

In the distant lower darkness, there was a sudden lence.

The howls faded back into the distant darkness, and were gone.

Against that distant, bluish darkness in the north, no triumph showed up at all.

And presently her voice came again from the more distant darkness somewhere: "Has the box which you commanded arrived yet, Euan?"

I thought I saw a shadowy figure disappear in the distant darkness.