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  92. By Amanda Hocking

Ulla still pulled at the wyrm’s tail. The ground rumbled as the wyrm wriggled and fought. It whipped its tail, yanking her through the ash and dirt, despite her best efforts to keep her footing.

The wyrm was scooting backward out of the stairwell, and with more of its body out, it was whipping her around with more and more force. Until finally it threw her, and she landed in a pile of rubble.

“Ulla!” I shouted, and started toward her, but she sat up, coughing, and I stopped short. “Ulla! The wyrm’s almost out! Go with Dagny and Sunniva to the tower! Sumi and I will take it from here!”

She nodded, then took off to where Dagny and Sunniva were waiting by the tower.

I looked back at Sumi. She held up her fractured snail shell shield with her left hand and her sword with her right.

The wyrm suddenly burst through the ground right in front of me. Dirt and stone exploded from the earth, and I was sent flying backward. The beast instantly turned its rage on me, and I curled up in a ball, hiding as much of my body as I could under my shield just as the wyrm unleashed a green fiery blast at me.

The snail shell held, but it got hot enough that it scorched my fingertips. I squeezed my eyes shut and buried my face in the dirt, and my skin felt sunburnt. All the hair stood up on my body, like I was consumed by static electricity, and my teeth ached.

“Hey!” Sumi shouted, and I peered out from under the shield to see her throwing broken elk antlers and bones at the wyrm.

The wyrm roared—right above me at earsplitting decibels—and then it slithered after Sumi. I crawled out from under the shell, and then I was on my feet, charging after the wyrm before it killed Sumi.

She held her own against it, dodging out of the way of its fiery attacks in the nick of time. I came up behind the giant beast, and in a quick motion, I slid my sword under the thick scales, stabbing at the tender flesh again.

The wyrm whirled around me, screeching and coiling itself up. I looked around to see Wendy holding her hands up palms out at the wyrm, and it abruptly took flight.

“Ulla’s up in the tower,” Noomi yelled at me from where she stood a few meters away from Wendy. Then she looked up at the dragon, circling above us. “It’s time to send it back.”

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Ulla

My hip throbbed from the wyrm throwing me in the rubble, and the palms of my hands were in ribbons from gripping the spiky tail. The beast appeared reptilian with all its scales, but it felt more like a leather cactus. Hundreds of tiny spikes had left my hands a bloody mess.