Law fights expertly against the monstrous creature, wielding his blade to great effectiveness to fend off and even sever entirely some of its limbs while trying to buy time for Weaver to get her drone ready. The world eater sweeps the room with death and despair, and he stands strong against the feelings it tries to draw out of him, determined to defend the people he stands with - especially the one right beside him who towers over the rest.

But then something takes hold and for a moment, he's no longer in the portal room. The stench of death surrounds him, presses in on him from all sides. There's no gunfire, no many-eyed beast, no portal. He hears the sound of buzzing flies, and the squeak of a wheel, uneven on the blood-soaked ground that was once home to a grand white city.

Cold shoots straight across him and he staggers backward against Rosinante, who is shouting and carrying him backward away from the fight. Hazily, he realizes he's been sliced from shoulder to hip, and the wound is deep. He'll make it out alive, but just barely.