He paused, and a final thought floated to the surface, one that seemed to define the situation.

Rand's thoughts floated outside the void, apart from himself, hardly noticed.

These days, his thoughts float 40,000 feet above the earth.

And the distant thought floated outside it that it was only the void.

As I sit here, along with the river some thoughts are floating by.

I'd interrupted whatever gray thoughts had been floating between us.

An irrelevant thought floated across the surface of his mind.

I let my thoughts float on the sound, barely taking in the sense of the words.

Then he sat back and tried to let his thoughts float freely, toward whatever the dream's purpose might be.

A thought that wasn't entirely his own floated into his consciousness.