An even blue light spilled diffused radiance over the glass walls; green, scarlet, golden flashes struck through.

Everywhere there was the scarlet flash of the grim-faced Security.

For one crazy moment, he thought it was Rand-but the flash of color, scarlet and blue, told him he was wrong.

Bright scarlet flashes blazed out and were gone.

Three scarlet flashes spat in swift succession.

The sight of those scarlet flashes brought courage.

One of the scarlet flashes curled through the mist like a snake, and struck the monster's flank.

From his precarious hold on the slippery iron rungs of the ladder, Ray, too, sent scarlet flashes spitting toward the tower top.

His head struck the rock, and the plain and the silent Mongs vanished in a scarlet flash.

From halfway up the bare desolate slopes came a brief scarlet flash and then, below, a shimmering distortion like an exaggerated heat haze.