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Chapter 21 I curled up on my side and pulled my knees close to my chest. I wanted to put my arms over my head, to tuck myself into a tighter ball, but everywhere any part of my body touched anything at all was agony. I felt those electric jolts dancing all over me. Then those jolts slowed their velocity and intensity. I still couldn't get up, and I didn't even want to open my eyes. But I could hear someone still pounding on that red door. Help was so close, but it couldn't get to me. So I would just have to find a way to get to it. I peered out through the bare slits my eyes would open to. Halldis still stood in my way. She was summoning more power, but it was building even more slowly than last time. She was looking older, too, her hair hanging limply around her face, and her snowy wh