Chapters Eighteen and Nineteen Summary

Janine returns to Shelby to convince Wulfgar to return with her. When she arrives, the guards don't recognize her and refuse her entry. She screams in sheer frustration until Sister Mary Ursula shows up. Janine is admitted with her. The guards have trouble raising the drawbridge and Janine goes back to them and the guard insists that it is stuck. They try several times before Janine does and is able to raise it. She goes in search of Wulfgar and he tells her to ask Abas, but she insists she needs his special talents. He closes the door, so she bangs again and this time thrusts the ring at him. Knowing it will compel him, he still cannot refuse it. She tells him first to protect her and go with her to Fairfield. The guards have trouble...