The slab broke free with Shade still lying across it. For an instant, the stone rose almost vertically, caught between the pull of Gluttony's chest and the downward pressure crushing the remains of the battlefield. Shade slid toward its edge, his ruined right leg dragging behind him as the thin shadows around his torso struggled to hold his spine in place.
He waited until the fragment began to turn. Gluttony's colossal body blocked what little light remained above the devastated landscape, casting a broad shadow across the bare ground beneath him. Shade had been watching that darkness since his last attack. Now, with the stone rotating toward the open maw in the Sin's chest, the two shadows briefly touched.
