For a moment Albert was nowhere at all - lost in a darkness through which fragments of his dream tumbled and spun in a whirlpool.
Rock and fragments of ice tumbled past him.
He let the fragments tumble to the floor.
As fragments tumbled onto the cot, the hollows left behind filled with new skin, smoothly flowing up like water in a spring.
The stem was a ragged wound, and fragments of outer hull tumbled away as the ship bucked and heaved in the turbulent atmosphere.
At the shielded opening, black fragments of shadows tumbled back through the room that was filled with shimmering, sparkling reflections off the glass mosaics.
The proconsul turned again to the viewscreen, where the fragments of the transport vessel were still tumbling through space unhindered.
Glistening fragments of metal tumbled down from the smoke-pall, like metal leaves turning in the sunlight.
A fragment of another time, a crumpled newspaper, tumbled in the draft moving through the low mist.
Riker looked at the main viewer, where glowing fragments of the Heran ship still tumbled against the stars.