Pages 199-225 Summary

Shawn Ogg fails to make it out of the castle. The elves take him to the armory door and tell him to bid the lady to come out. One of the elves peeks in through the keyhole and keels over from a crossbow dart to the eye. Magrat opens the door with a box labeled 'candles.' She gives the box to one of the remaining elves, who takes it reflexively. She feigns terror and in a quavering voice reminds the elves that they promised not to harm her. They tell her they lied to her, and one of them attempts to stab her through the back of her dress with a stone dagger. The dagger is miraculously turned. The second elf opens the box Magrat gave him and Greebo springs out of it and begins slashing away at his face...