The problem with losing half a shoe (aside from the inherent horror of something simply disappearing from his body) was that with the heel gone there was nothing to hold it on the rest of his foot. Try as he did to pick up the pace with his injured leg, he finds himself almost immediately stumbling as the shoe started to slip off and get underfoot. It wasn't an illusion, then. Something had actually taken part of his body off. He'd thought maybe he was hallucinating it, because he couldn't feel it... dear Merlin, he couldn't feel his foot.

Someone was reaching out. Ezra didn't have time to think it through, but it wasn't as though there were many alternatives. He nodded and thrust Caleb towards the stranger. "Get him far away," he said urgently. "Please."

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