First one farmstead was burned, all of the building, and only gnawed fragments of people or cattle left.
A fragment of granite in the shape of a smiley face left the formation and jumped to his hand.
The only remaining step, then, was to cast doubt on his military record, the last fragment of his former life left to love.
Between them, blast and fragments left him hardly more than a red rag splashed across the snow.
You may get a few bone fragments left, but vamps burn more completely than any human.
He was using both sword and the fragment of battered half-moon of shield left to him to block strokes.
With only fragments of wilderness left to preserve, conservation is dependent on the support of local people.
The finding upsets previous thinking that Vesta's gravitational hold is too strong to allow the fragments to leave the surface.
There are, however, a very few sketches and fragments of work from this period, including a vocal work left unfinished just hours before his death.
"Another garrulous fragment of ordinary life was leaving him, going about its business," he thinks.