But let's not get ahead of ourselves… We had arrived the day before in Tromso in Norway, Europe's northernmost city, to darkness, face-burning cold, and inches of thick snow cloaking everything in sight.
All she saw were small yellow windows, like lanterns hanging in darkness, faces at some of the windows, and the blue flicker of TV sets.
Put simplistically, he realised that his writing future lay not in the firm ground he knew over his shoulder, but in the darkness facing him, about which he knew nothing.
In the wake of Hurrcane Sandy in 2013, Guzman took a break from the flashing lights and street art-style paintings for a more introspective series called Now That I'm Sober?, depicting the literal and emotional darkness facing New York.
And there is no happy let's-learn-to-do-magic windup to the darkness they face.
Well, with Saruman's omission there is no compelling intelligence directing the forces of darkness; the face of evil effectively has to be Gollum who, although nasty, is no worthy dramatic counterpoint for Aragorn and Gandalf.
Between the darkness that faces me from within and the darkness that faces me from without, it may just prove to be the hardest thing I've ever done.
Dirty-faced passengers stagger about in the darkness, their faces a mixture of incredulity and bereft resignation.
In the darkness, their faces loom like lost souls in purgatory: in daylight, they look quite different and more human.
Flying low through the darkness, we faced a high risk of being shot down.
