บท 68: Skipping levels.

  It was just as Severus had said, the pain was enormous and Scarlet felt as if her entire body was tearing itself apart and then being reshaped. Her soul felt as if it was being ripped from her body one piece at a time. 

The sheer volume of power being forced upon her was enough to break her apart so much that she would never be able to recover.  Just as the process stopped and she sighed in relief, it would begin again, even more painfully than it had been before. 

When the temptation to give up became so strong, the name Ulysses rung in her mind and she pushed on. The words useless and stupid also rung in her mind and he just kept on pushing.