At this point in her life, Samora is quite good at making reflex saves. But the way you get good at making reflex saves is by running into things that are quite good at requiring them. This latest aberration is either especially good or especially lucky, and Samora falls out of the air, fast asleep for the first time in years.

While her comrades finish off the aberration and start shaking her shoulder she dreams of a maze, and searches half-lucid for a way out, and steps through an iron mirror . . .