The boy thought about that for a while as he looked at the moon and the bleached sands.
Like broken glass, bleached sand, or refined salt, the breakpoints are transparent but partially reflecting, because the index of refraction changes at them.
Backed by lush green cliffs and washed by azure waters, which on a sunny day do an enticingly good impression of the Caribbean, the large expanse of bleached sands give the bay its name.
And without that sinuous length of rock, there was nothing here to subtract from the bleached sand, a wilderness from horizon to horizon.
In the few seconds it took for the strange visitor to traverse our pristine atmosphere and end its heavenly voyage upon the bleached sands of Lymorsch, everything changed.
Winding between the dunes were a dozen arms of silver water, pouring across the bleached sand from the direction of the reservoir.
Even the faceless black mages shivered as they heard Creslin's words whisper across the barren rocks and bleached sands.
Expect to find miles of classic bleached sand unmarked by little except coconut husks and the occasional antlers of bleached driftwood.
Miles of bleached sand stretched to the limits of vision in dunes and hills, and the only relief in this blinding monotony was a dark dot moving in the middle distance.