It was brittle, white clay obviously intended to be shattered. The shards formed the approximate shape of a plate on the floor, though shards seemed to have been scattered upwards.
Dan gently put the piece of the plate down and extinguished his cigarette. He tried to visually follow the upwards scattering of shards, seeing where they lead to.
When he reached the roof Dan saw clear scuff marks in the dirt and soot atop the building. Someone had landed on the roof and then made off in... whatever direction they'd left in wasn't clear to him.
Dan kicked the soot on the roof and walked around the perimeter, trying to discern if the had gone down a certain path or even jumped from a certain place.
The were long scuff marks near the west side of the roof, a collection of scratches near the south-east corner and what looked like a circle of blown soot near the eastern edge.
[Elexia] Golt Vurmben, The Second Story