Ceilingward

Noble's eyes flashed in a quick ceilingward glance.

". . . Did you see what she upstairs had delivered today?" one woman huffed with a ceilingward glance and a dripping poke of her thumb in the vague direction of the Snooks.

Once again, my little attempt to charm her with humour was met with a ceilingward lifting of the eyebrows in finicky disapproval.

Liddell nodded, exhaled a feathery tendril of dirty white smoke ceilingward.

“Mom!” he said, rolling his eyes ceilingward. “I'm not a kid, you know.”

Logging off, Alynn stood up and stretched her arms ceilingward, fingers intertwined high above her head.