After a long time, out of the grayness, an answer arrived.

With all the force of his will, he forced that grayness away.

Their eyes gaze at the fire, or out into the grayness beyond.

There was grayness to the east where the local sun rose.

It is more than just the grayness of his beard.

It seemed that some warm light went out of the room and a little grayness took its place.

They knew daylight as a grayness in which one could see.

Somewhere far to the west of the grayness was Hawaii.

One is dead, two more have the grayness upon them."

Into the shifting grayness came a thing that upon land could pass for a man.

Outside, the rain continued to fall through the grayness that had never broken.

Through the grayness in his mind, Covenant heard the doors open again.

But after the passing away of the grayness, his dreams had changed.

Had his grayness progressed to a point where he simply disappeared?

His eyes were getting a little accustomed to the strange grayness of the under water.

"Nice for them," she said, looking over her shoulder at the grayness.

When his strength failed, she would be helpless before the grayness.

I could see a center to the grayness now.

In the grayness before him there'd appeared a spark of bright fire.

When the area of grayness was wide enough, a black shape slipped through it.

"In balance, black and white, instead of losing them both to grayness."

The alley was black, the grayness inside him a cold, heavy thing be must guard.

I could feel the pull the grayness was exerting on me.

And he fell, or seemed to fall, through a massive cloud of grayness.

Just as startling within the first part's grayness is the eruption of color.