She was lying beside him in cool sand with no understanding of how she'd managed to get there.

Taking off his shoes, he stepped onto the cool sand.

We sit on the cool sand and watch a turtle laying her eggs.

He put his arms around her, drawing her down on the cool sand.

He got up and went after her, across the cool sand.

She reached the beach, the sand soft and cool now beneath her feet.

They fell to the cool sand and made love.

She put her cheek down against the cool sand and closed her eyes.

I let my head fall to one side, my cheek against the cool damp sand.

But all I had to do was sink deeper inside myself, withdraw even from the cool sand around me not to hear them.