"Shit!" The word tore from Cel's throat as the ground vanished beneath him. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy9xKGmHqH3
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For one suspended heartbeat, he hung over the void.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJKKUM8R4T
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Then gravity took him.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXRcf0Isrgo
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Above him, the maw yawned wide - concentric rows of teeth closing toward him like a trap sprung perfectly. The creature had erupted from below, swallowing upward, and he was falling straight into its gullet.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAa95PRiamD
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Cel's legs kicked against empty air, finding nothing.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLjIJ6xufx
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The maw snapped shut.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2LqY4sxHG8
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Darkness swallowed the crimson sky. The teeth missed him - barely - their serrated edges scraping past inches from his skin. But the creature had him, trapped in the suffocating confines of its throat.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2EC47tQZ5
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The walls contracted immediately. Heat pressed in from all sides, thick with the stench of decay and something acidic that burned his nostrils.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VMrrDMdfm
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His body still rotated from the momentum of his fall. The inner wall rushed toward him through the blackness. Silent Moon remained in his hand, angled forward by chance rather than design.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvvr7lgNLD
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He drove it in with everything he had.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmh0URYGWz
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The steel met flesh and stuck. Cel drove his weight behind it, feeling layers of tissue resist and tear as the blade sank arm-deep into the wall. Warm blood sprayed across his face, his chest, coating him in black ichor. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg8twqpfMfm
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The creature didn't react. No shriek. No spasm. The walls continued their steady contraction, indifferent to steel embedded in them. He might as well have pricked it with a needle.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjqN2Leb4q
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Then the creature moved.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORnqaLQq90
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It plunged downward with violent force, diving into the earth like water. Cel’s body whipped back and forth as the creature twisted and writhed, tearing through rock and packed earth in its descent.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zW2VtvQzb
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His grip on Silent Moon's hilt was the only thing keeping him from being dragged deeper into the throat. His arms screamed, shoulders threatening to tear from their sockets as his body swung wild with each thrashing movement. The weapon held firm, anchored in flesh, but his fingers were slipping on blood-slick silk. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8YT8hQTEl
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Something cracked against his ribs - sharp, sudden, stealing his breath. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YPCGWQaBQ
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Debris poured through the open maw. Stone fragments, ash, chunks of earth torn free by the creature's passage, all funneling down this living tunnel in a deadly stream.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvXXuRthQF
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He twisted away, pressing himself against the slick inner wall, trying to predict trajectories he couldn't see. But the blackness turned every impact into surprise, every dodge into desperate guesswork.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyTqO3vWh3
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Stone cracked against his shoulder. Another caught his hip—165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFy05DZlTh
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His left hand tore free.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydF8gbtzcm
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The world lurched as his body swung out into open space, held only by his right hand wrapped around the hilt. The shoulder screamed.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBv0Zy37dy
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Panic detonated through him like wildfire. His arm was failing. One more violent twist and he'd lose his grip entirely—165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GDPinqoO7
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His left hand shot up again, fingers wrapping over his right in a death grip. Both hands locked on the hilt, knuckles white with strain. But it wasn't enough. The blood, the thrashing, the angle - he was still slipping.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKVE7DGWoy
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‘Frostmark.’ The thought came like lightning.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLAafNnXKw
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He didn't hesitate.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3QUiYCdeY3
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Cold exploded through his left palm.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRzs4BXcaea
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Ice erupted from his left palm, racing over his right hand and sealing it to the hilt in a crystalline death grip. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIATEhYxFW
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Frostbite hit instantly - a searing, vicious cold that punched the breath from his lungs. The pain spread up his wrist in waves of agony worse than any blade, any flame. Like winter itself was devouring him from the inside out, eating through muscle and bone alike. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6xTN5ZNw5
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Then something massive struck his skull.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofytje1WUJ
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White light exploded behind his eyes. The world spun, tilted, shattered.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTWdCCDp78
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His consciousness fled.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoolw3K82TX
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Eventually, pain dragged him back.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqY1JttpyQ1
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Not the sharp agony of an open wound, but a dull, throbbing ache that pulsed through his skull in time with his heartbeat. Each throb sent fresh waves of nausea through his stomach.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JazdvSZG5
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Cel's awareness returned in fragments. First the pain. Then the darkness - so complete it might as well have been solid. Then the smell - rot,acid and something else, something organic that made him want to retch.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwM6Em7vjvL
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His body hung loose, suspended by his right arm stretched overhead. Blood had dried on his face in a crusted mask, pulling tight against his skin with every small movement. His right hand felt... wrong. Not painful. Not cold. Just absent, as if it had been severed at the wrist.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRKQW1grfD
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Panic flared. He tried to flex his fingers.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyFwMslchh
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Nothing.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWcQCeafFIt
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Numb. Dead. Frozen to the hilt.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeZRyEFEVw
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He tried his left hand. His fingers responded, flexing weakly against empty air. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSV3qVxTC1E
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Relief flooded through him. At least one hand still worked.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ688X2jfbAz
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He blinked, but the darkness remained absolute. No crimson sky. No ash-covered wasteland. Just black so complete it pressed against his eyeballs like a physical weight. The air was thick, heavy with moisture that clung to his skin.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswqxK7gyQZ
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Memory crashed back in vivid detail. The collapsing ground. The maw snapping shut. Silent Moon plunged deep into yielding flesh. The creature diving into earth. Debris striking him until—165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3CbEYGd28r
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Understanding followed a heartbeat later, and with it came something very familiar.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87mscIdfEm
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Rage.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4PIiizO72
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'Fucking worm.' 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmGJD3E3kr
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He'd thought himself lucky when the creature passed after devouring the fleeing one. Thought he'd simply gone unnoticed. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttrzR3htN2
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But this thing had seen him perfectly. It had simply been patient. Watching. Waiting. Playing dead while he stood there distracted by its first kill, lowering his guard, thinking himself safe. Then it had struck with perfect precision. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCkrxlZvIH
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Cel's jaw clenched so hard his teeth ached. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLU3CpSkdR9
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He'd been deceived. Made to believe the rules were different than they were. That he was somehow invisible to these creatures. And he'd believed it - because he'd wanted to believe it. Because it would have made survival so much easier.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfO1WNKjmV3
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‘Stupid.’165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEpoF2gra9u
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The fury settled in his chest like hot coals, steady and sustaining. Good. He'd need that anger. Need it to get through what came next.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVjJE4xN0K
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The creature had stopped moving now - settled deep beneath the earth, probably digesting its first meal while waiting for its second to die in its gut.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNYinr3wk3
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Cel hung there in the suffocating darkness, trying to orient himself. His body dangled loose, arms stretched toward what he assumed was up. Gravity pulled at his legs, his torso, everything pointing down into the black.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWWaIupeGv
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He was alive. The ice hadn't broken.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YPXIQ84AB
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Frostmark had saved him. The fragile frost that shattered from a single punch had actually held where his strength would have failed. It had kept him anchored while debris battered his skull unconscious, kept him from sliding into the digestive acids waiting below.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡewq5IBmnNx
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The irony was bitter. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhuxPItEFah
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Not even Unbroken Succession would have saved him here. That divine gift required moonlight to reach his corpse during a full moon. But buried in the gullet of a creature deep beneath the earth? The moon's light would never be able to touch his remains.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWunqrbuGa
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The disappointing, pathetic authority he'd written off as a joke had been the only thing standing between him and permanent death.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFdYrT7zB6
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His throat tightened. He didn't know whether to feel grateful or furious.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNYhVGcmR5
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A faint, rhythmic sound vibrated through the flesh around him. The creature's breathing, perhaps. Or its heartbeat. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdzmfYjW8q
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He couldn't stay here. Hanging blind in the creature's gullet while frostbite ate through his hand.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4epH6leloM
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The way his body hung - arms overhead, legs pointing down - meant the creature had to be horizontal, stretched out like a snake at rest. Which meant he wasn't dangling over a void. There was ground below. Somewhere.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9JFyiVwKt
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Cel braced himself, then wrenched Silent Moon free from the flesh.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTqMMsZb3c
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The blade tore loose with a wet, sucking sound. His stomach lurched as gravity took him. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fbKRV0r9t
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He dropped through the darkness. Two seconds. Three. Long enough for panic to claw at his chest before— 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4vQLM137IA
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His body slammed into yielding flesh with a wet thud that drove the air from his lungs. Not ground. Not stone. The soft, slick floor of the creature's throat cushioned his fall.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3Am8CtKhp
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Cel lay there gasping, his frozen hand still locked around Silent Moon's hilt. The blade lay across his chest, free of the wall but bound to him by ice. Four crescent phases glowed along its length, piercing the darkness with soft white radiance. The glow painted his immediate surroundings in ghostly relief - ribbed walls glistening with mucus, organic ridges pulsing with the creature's rhythm.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZwv4KmDHH
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Cel braced the hilt against the ground and slammed his left fist into the ice encasing his right hand. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBeSK7z99S
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The first blow skidded off at an angle, pain jolting up his wrist. He repositioned, aimed better. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZrfuNZ2VA8
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The second punch landed square - the frost shattered with a sharp crack, fragments scattering across the floor.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSqY8JZ72s
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Yet his right hand remained numb. Dead weight at the end of his wrist. He tried to flex his fingers - nothing. The frostbite had gone too deep.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESTiIw9HRh
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Cel grabbed Silent Moon with his other hand and pushed himself upright, testing his weight carefully. 165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6e9c6JiSzM
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He needed to find a way out.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBj8fiD0fw
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Going deeper would accomplish nothing. The creature's digestive system waited that way. Even if the acid didn't kill him, he'd simply be trapped in an even worse position.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTEAGZqFieS
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Carving his way through the flesh was impossible. Those obsidian-hard plates he'd glimpsed covered the creature's exterior - armor that had probably turned aside a thousand claws and fangs. He doubted Silent Moon could pierce them.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPA1mMOB3W
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That left the mouth.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rSgentrW2
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But the maw had snapped shut when it swallowed him. He'd felt it close like a trap, and he couldn't possibly force it open. And even if he managed that miracle, how far down had the creature dived? How much earth lay between him and the surface?165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8b0AEEvqI
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His mind turned to Selina. He could enter his soul. Ask for guidance—165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmA5thhWrT
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If the creature moved again - and it would, eventually - he needed to be conscious. Needed to be ready to drive Silent Moon deep and hold on for another violent ride through stone and earth. Entering his soul now was suicide.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOtErHK78B
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So he was trapped. Waiting in a living prison until the creature decided to surface.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaQNlGc3HF
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His only chance came when it opened its mouth on its own. To hunt. To breathe. Whatever these things did.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMf9srrP4dY
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But the teeth…165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTE1LfYpv99
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Cel's gaze swept across the throat again, and something white gleamed near. He squinted through the dim light.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOzTTj6Zhb
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A tooth. As tall as he was, maybe taller. Curved like a scimitar, serrated along its inner edge.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAE8BL2hmF8
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His stomach clenched. Getting past those teeth had been luck. Pure, stupid luck when the maw had snapped shut and missed him by inches. Trying to slip through them consciously, while the creature was active and aware?165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zRZI53O0B
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The odds were worse.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Lpi3HKgGH
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Unless…165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwoSjsCoTt3
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An idea struck. Cold. Brutal. Utterly insane.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISYgWwR8Qk
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What if the creature had no teeth?165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftiJbZmuW6
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A grin spread across his blood-crusted face, wild and malicious in the blade's ghostly light.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ74V5aR72sA
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