Perhaps she might still be save , he thought, but as he carefully shifed wood and stone he recognized that there was little he could do for her now. Her body was shattered, broken into pieces in an act of desecration that made no sense to him. This was not accidental, but deliberate: he could see marks on the floor where booted to fragments. Yet, somehow, her head had escaped the worst of the violence, and dr.al-daini could not decide if this rendered what had been visited upon her less awful, or more terrible.
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