He saw his men fall to sleep one by one, and he heard their heavy breathing.

Braxton Wyatt also wrapped himself in his blanket and soon slumbered.

The fire sank, the coals crumbled, and with soft little hisses, fell together.

The circling rim of darkness crept up closer and closer, and the trunks of the trees became ghostly in the shadows.
Alvarez saw his sentinels at either side of the camp, to right and left, walking back and forth, and he knew also that they would watch well.

Time passed.