Meanings of fading darkness in English

Fires flickered in the now fading darkness, and down came the lodges as though wizard hands had touched them.

Flown expertly by Duncan, the small ship rose high above the white-flecked ocean, through the afternoon thunderclouds, and into the fading darkness of space.

The ridge to the east rose indistinctly from a nebulous sea of mist in the fading darkness, wavering vaguely just on the edge of visibility.

"You'll never be able to rest if you don't stop thinking," she whispered through the fading darkness.