A strand of dark hair came loose, fell across her forehead.

One strand comes from his greatest moment in coaching.

The first gray strands of morning were coming into the sky.

But within the camp the disparate strands of his life came together.

The strand of sapphires came loose, dropped to the floor.

This strand could have come from any of those three boys.

A strand of black hair came loose and curled around her neck.

"Because there's no way this strand came from the killer."

Like a puzzle, the fine strands came together in the center of Quark's mind.

He noticed that two strands of her hair had come loose.