akiva was shaking and racked with magic , and the pair of them were again in the eye of a storm of misery-their world was a storm of misery and they were caught in its center , in the deceptive stillness that had allowed them to forget , once upon a time , that all around them was a stinging whirl of hatred that would catch them-it was everywhere and everything and they 'd been fools to think they could leave their small safe place and not be caught in that vortex like every other living creature in eretz .