He had been trusting his life and more to far more fragile bonds than this for a long time now.

Now a new fear threatened her: what could that experience do to the fragile bond they'd been contriving?

Slowly these two inarticulate, damaged individuals begin to form a fragile bond.

Then he stepped back and her arms dropped away, but a fragile bond had been woven between them.

He was prepared to think the worst of her and sever the fragile bonds that had linked them for a short time.

Should she tell him of the newer, more fragile bond they also shared?

Each child and parent forms a fragile bond, one too often fractured by a lack of parental resolve.

What a fragile bond it had been, thought Kaoru.

In only a few hours, the fragile bond between the various groups began to strengthen.

Give the fragile bonds of trust that your people have built with the Coalition a chance to prove their value.