Holy relics

Usage examples of icons.

He had no love for priests or icons, but so be it: the action was undertaken.

Many villages had old icons, all of them liked to claim theirs was the famous one.

There are at least two famous icons associated with the clothing Mary wore, both lost.

The familiar icons and signpost-symbols that guide the unwary are gone completely, erased by their owners or remade in new and somehow threatening form.

At the Polar Flare, where there is always news of the shadows, she catches the ball of light that is flung at her, unwraps the spinning advertisement without bothering to read the icons, there is nothing at its center, and she frowns, and tosses the glittering shards like confetti back onto the net.

Around the inner surface of the sphere, the eliminated players cluster in ones and threes, bright icons at the corners of her vision, redetermining the playing area.

BBS and the delta, slides away from it as the data slows around her, using her own separate momentum to carry her a little further into the swirling light, the bright icons of the advertisers and the punters and the users blending into a single shifting layer like the flow of a visible wind.

Only the wall remains unchanged, and there are icons clustered at its far end, waiting.

Bastard, she thinks, and grins, and keeps on walking, watching the icons shift themselves, spreading out to meet her.

Behind the icons, on the wall, she sees her icon dancing against a gaudy familiar packaging, its gloss a little dulled from handling.

Out of the corner of her eye, she sees other icons gathering by ones and twos, staying well back, out of range, but watching.

The Postmaster is first to move, drifting back out of the line of icons, away from the wall, away from her, his message clear.

BBS surround her, the first sphere filled with gaudy advertising, the icons fizzing against her skin, dancing around her like a cloud of insects.

She reaches the intersection, makes the transfer, and codes flash before her eyes, icons and a stream of numbers warning her that another person, another icon, is overtaking her, signaling for her attention.

She looks around once, noting the visible icons and the one that is invisible, blanked out, lurking behind a screen of light, and then nods to the shape that bows stiffly in her general direction.