She gazed upward and was astounded.

How steep was the rounded slope on all sides! There were no sides; it was a circle.

She looked up at a round lake of deep translucent sky.

Such depth of blue, such exquisite rare color! Carley imagined she could gaze through it to the infinite beyond.
She closed her eyes and rested.

Soon the laboring of heart and breath calmed to normal, so that she could not hear them.