Description: Figure skater Windsong Chen's urgent diplomatic mission to a distant solar system to save billions of innocent lives was suddenly in dire peril. "Halfway through her Spiral, at the very top of the Figure-8, it happened. Sharp pains began shooting through her right hip, and it began to cramp up. 'NO!!' she thought in horror at the rapidly mounting pain. As she began gliding down the upper loop, the pain became excruciating. Fighting as she had never fought before, smiling radiantly all the while through waves of agony, Windsong maintained her Spiral. As she entered the bottom loop again, her right leg began quivering in spasms, as tears rolled down her face. 'Lord, give me strength!' she prayed desperately in her mind, fighting with everything she had to keep holding her left leg up. At one point, her right foot almost strayed outside the narrow gold line -- but somehow her foot turned slightly, just in time and at just the right angle, and she reestablished control. But she was still in the fight of her life. 'No Pain!' she screamed at herself mentally. 'No Pain!' 'Can't...Fail...Fifty...Billion...DIE...If...I...Do!'"

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