The weapons lockers were open, and on the deck lay Nasiru Haidar, facedown and motionless, with blood pooled under his head.

No spatter-most of the blood pooled under him.

But he came back through the door, the blood pooled in his cheeks.

Susan wiped her nose, grimaced at the blood pooled in her palm, and wiped it on the leg of her pants.

Relatives and friends crowded patients' beds, barked orders to the medical staff and walked through blood pooled near the doorway.

Fallon stared in shock as blood pooled under Sobehk's body.

It hurt; a drop of blood pooled in her hand, the rose turned pink.

Better dust than the thing she'd found hanging from the beam in the laundry, the blood pooled in the ankles, glory gone.

Thin streams of red blood pooled from the ruin of his neck, slowing to nothing.

Silvered blue eyes told me he had died undead, but the blood pooled in his legs and heels said that he hadn't been drained, simply killed twice.