Shards

Shards were a type of meat-eating locusts. They were about a finger long and appeared in huge, glittering swarms devouring all meat, just leaving rags, hair and bones.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 4, UK HB p.151
They were prolific in the Glass Desert.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 8, UK HB p.278
==In Dust of Dreams==
The children of the Snake had their first encounter with the Shards one late afternoon and many of them died.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 4, UK HB p.151
Later during the march, the children made floppy bags out of human skin with which they trapped Shards to then eat them.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 19, UK HB p.649
==In The Crippled God==
The Shards devoured a girl called Thorl.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 8, UK HB p.208
==Notes and references==
Category:Insects and reptiles