There were holes in the cheeks through which his teeth showed. His ears were gone. His neck was little more than sinew and knobby vertebrae. The muscles had been stripped from the remainder of his body. He had no belly, no organs, just a section of lumbar spine to bridge the torso and the pelvis. The meat had been sloppily torn off, leaving the curled nubs of tendons and an ice-crusted layer of frozen blood on connective tissue.
