"Sunshine came through crisp white curtains, reflected off a bowl of water, and made waves on the opposite wall. A cool gust followed into the bedroom. Outside, the lawn was still green but the gimtrees had turned color, scarlet streaked with gold, and the Hercules Mountains were blue and dim through a haze not unlike Earth's Indian summer."
-Orbit Unlimited, part four, 9, p. 153.
After a sickroom visit by the mayor:
"Svoboda didn't return to his book at once. He lay for a while gazing out the window, toward the horizon where the snowpeaks of Hercules upheld the sky.
"THE END." (p. 158)
Appropriately during recuperation, there is a cool gust, not a cold blast.
Jack Birnam has rescued Ayan, Wyvan of Stormgate, who was injured during an Avalonian storm. In the Ythrian ward of the hospital:
"Ayan lay in one of the frames designed for his race. He was alone in his room. Its window stood open to a lawn and tall trees - Avalonian king's crown, Ythrian windnest, Earthly oak - and a distant view of snowpeaks. Light spilled from heaven. The air sang. Ayan looked wistfully outward."
-Poul Anderson, "Rescue on Avalon" IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, March 2011), pp. 307-322 At p. 321.
(Ythrians are fliers. When recovered, Ayan will fly through heaven towards those distant snowpeaks.)
Air sings; it does not shout or roar. Again, appropriate.
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