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Then, she managed to get her fingers on cold metal.  But as soon as she touched it, some kind of mechanism snapped, clamping down hard on the tips of her fingers with a sharp jolt of pain.Runt jerked back with surprise and a long string of colorful swear words.  She only realized what she had done a moment too late as she felt her balance shift backward.  She tried to grab onto the shelf to steady her, but the old, rotted wood just gave way, books and other objects falling, and soon enough she was tumbling to the ground as well, Troy’s hands slipping around her ankles, and his own balance thrown off as well.--Runt falls, Troy catches her