*you time your leap perfectly, and the shadow helps as much as it can. You both hit the roof of the building and roll as the colossus falls past you.
The impact as it hits the sand is like an earthquake, and the walls of the building crack; for a moment, you think it might collapse. But then the world seems to blur around you, and
shifts
and you're lying on thick cushions instead of stone, with a canopy of rugs over your heads, before Veiled's throne.*