Cel stood and lifted Silent Moon higher, letting its pale radiance push back the darkness. The blade's four glowing crescents cast enough light to see perhaps ten steps in any direction.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3puChlYyKm
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He began walking the perimeter of the throat, mapping what he was truly dealing with.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gHuJxvXug
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His breath caught.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9XObeSQ3N
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Teeth. Dozens of them in the first ring alone. Perhaps hundreds total.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZxI6smPlC
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They ringed the maw's entrance in concentric rows that stretched back into shadow, each tooth a curved blade of bone as tall as he stood.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6CxZJ8rHKA
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Slipping through them by chance as he fell was one thing. Forcing his way through deliberately while the creature was awake and aware?151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWpnszZJWn
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Cel's jaw tightened as he studied the formation. The outer ring was densest - teeth packed so close together a child couldn't squeeze between them. But further in, toward where he stood, the spacing grew wider. The creature's throat, it seemed, was less concerned about things trying to escape from within.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmPrK2TlSyW
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His gaze tracked from tooth to tooth, counting. Estimating. Each one would need to be loosened from its socket, carved free from the flesh that held it. One by one. With a single working hand.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1mvy08huJ
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The enormity of the task settled over him like a weight.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgeyoZ39rCF
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"Let's get started then." His voice sounded strange in the close space - flat, swallowed by organic walls.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYrMjZs20RW
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He approached the nearest tooth, running his left hand along its smooth outer curve. Almost polished. The serrations on the inner edge looked sharp enough to shred flesh.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPd526NiXk
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The tooth curved inward, its base disappearing into a socket of yielding flesh. That's where he'd need to cut. Sever the connections. Loosen it enough to pull free.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuvFdKa0FM
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Cel adjusted his grip on Silent Moon's hilt, positioning the blade's point near the gumline. A chokutō was built for thrusting - straight, single-edged, perfect for driving deep into flesh. If he had both hands, this would be simple. Quick, even.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLd8PEnM45F
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But his right hand dangled uselessly at his side. Dead weight. The frostbite had taken it completely.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspNASgg18w
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He'd have to do this one-handed.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKGx2FgAUF
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The blade's tip found purchase against yielding flesh. Cel drove it in.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10sIzkwVOV
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Steel met resistance - flesh and muscle pushing back - yet his uncontrolled strength forced the blade deeper than intended. Silent Moon's entire length disappeared into the socket before he could stop himself, his hand slamming into the base where tooth met flesh. Blood exploded outward, spraying across his chest in a hot wave.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhZIPN7chA
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Cel jerked back, startled. He'd meant to probe carefully, to work the blade in gradually.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrSDCcZrulP
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Instead, he'd just buried it to the hilt in a single motion.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGMWFTM2de
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'Too much strength again.'151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMhxAp3EQPO
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But unlike the practice swings where control mattered, where balance determined everything - here, raw power was exactly what he needed. There was no finesse required. No technique. Just destruction.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmajeZuNq5B
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He wrenched Silent Moon free and repositioned. Then drove it in from a different angle.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOeC5a1TTl
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The blade punched through meat and scraped against bone with a grinding sound that made his teeth ache. He twisted the hilt, using the leverage to carve away the connective tissue. Blood poured from the wound in thick streams.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1eRw9ZtQy
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The creature didn't react. No spasm. No sound. Just the steady rhythm of its breathing continuing unchanged, as if he were nothing more than an irritating insect.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroP4D0rzNK
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Good. Let it stay ignorant.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPVmLeI7Of
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Cel worked methodically now, driving Silent Moon in from different angles around the tooth's base. Each thrust went deep - deeper than he intended, deeper than he could control. But it didn't matter. Every wild, uncontrolled strike tore away more of the socket's hold.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFPDPL7QNF
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The work was going faster than he'd expected. Much faster.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8W556zZFAh
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After perhaps twenty thrusts - maybe thirty - the tooth shifted.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEAnhzV3XW
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Not slightly. Not a gentle loosening.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsT740XbpAx
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It lurched in its socket, suddenly free on one side, listing like a tree about to fall.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpelS760Oo
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Cel gripped the tooth's base where it jutted from the socket and pulled.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmxaQok4ZKm
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Nothing. The tooth held fast, still anchored on one side.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4odnfJRF0
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He braced his feet against the slick floor and threw his weight backward. Muscles strained. The tooth resisted, grinding against bone and tissue that refused to release.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyeS5WxxX9S
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Cel snarled and pulled harder.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZgJmdNq0h9
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The socket tore free with a wet, ripping sound flesh giving way all at once. The sudden release sent him stumbling backward as the tooth's weight shifted.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlEVgSxaYRN
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The fang hit the floor with a meaty thud.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0oAXyO34b
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One tooth done.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhzYcYzqMVv
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He stared at it for a moment, then looked up at the rows still remaining.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzT1lGoqrZJ
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'That wasn't so bad.' 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNzwBYlT7K
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The realization settled over him slowly. Yes, there were dozens more. Maybe hundreds. And yes, he only had one working hand.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZA3ZLr3UWd
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But he was strong now. Far stronger than he'd ever been. Strong enough that raw power could substitute for skill, for precision, for everything he lacked.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnoHQaaIcYM
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This was doable.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRi2yQJsUuA
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His throat worked in a dry swallow, pulling him back to immediate concerns. When had he last had water? Not since his resurrection. Time blurred together, but his body knew - knew from the way his tongue felt thick and papery, from the way even swallowing hurt. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFOtdtGfcGM
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He needed water. 151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgkCZvBonfR
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But there was no water here. Just blood, bile and—151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElp8SklPMK
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His gaze dropped to the shattered frost fragments scattered across the floor. The ice that had saved his life earlier.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqeU9sTzmz
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'Frostmark creates ice.' The thought arrived slowly, fighting through dehydration's fog.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡebLzzvJndL
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And ice was frozen water.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSZlPJj5AV
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Cel pressed his left palm against the organic floor.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4O3lFgBj7
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Cold erupted beneath his hand. The familiar burning sensation - vicious and sharp - raced up his arm as frost spiraled outward in delicate patterns. The tissue beneath crystallized instantly, forming a perfect circle of ice.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4tLr3lvsQ
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He pulled his hand away, fingers aching from the cold, and stared at what he'd created.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbL9ss3dKJ
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Frost. Beautiful and intricate.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWiqS5biip5
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Edible?151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUp4EfXsevH
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His stomach churned at the thought. But what choice did he have?151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchCIugaLwY
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Cel reached down and broke off a chunk of the frost. It came away with a sharp crack, the fragment glittering pale blue in Silent Moon's light.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3tkjjBKyv
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He brought it to his mouth. Hesitated.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxde0L9Kxq
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Then bit down.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDiDqtYBmSz
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The sound was obscenely loud - a crunching crack that echoed off the ribbed walls. Like biting into thick glass. The ice was hard, dense, requiring real force to break between his teeth.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXjWYMtDJF
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But it broke.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ68OuPErg4a
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Cold flooded his mouth - sharp and immediate, spreading across his tongue without melting. He chewed carefully, breaking the fragments down smaller and smaller. The ice didn't dissolve like normal frost would. He had to grind it between his teeth until the pieces were small enough to swallow safely.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8PoPwA5aI
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He chewed carefully, feeling the fragments crack and crunch. Then swallowed.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbop3vQkyL
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The cold traced a path down his throat, settling in his stomach with surprising weight. Not water exactly. But close enough. Real enough.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURSr2JyIIG
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Cel stared at the remaining frost on the floor, then at his left hand.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ500vsSncxw
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'It works.'151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPevh07DYFr
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Relief crashed through him so intensely his vision blurred. He could make water. Whenever he needed it. However much he needed.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzjvWSOA5UC
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The authority he'd dismissed as useless had now saved his life twice. First by anchoring him during the creature's violent descent. Now by providing the one thing that separated survival from death by dehydration.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwnmgpJmqBt
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His throat tightened with something that might have been shame.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB57qsIZJ4e
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"I'm sorry," he whispered to the darkness. To the moon he couldn't see. To the goddess who'd granted him power he'd been too blind to appreciate. "I'm sorry I underestimated your gift."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9NYyDVIne
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The words felt inadequate. Hollow. But they were all he had.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPS6lvyKL7s
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Cel ate more frost, methodically breaking off chunks and crunching them down until his mouth no longer felt like sandpaper. Until swallowing didn't hurt.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKA59LlnxL
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When he finished, he stood, testing his legs. Steadier now. The frost had restored something vital.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc45YGEE3kk
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But his stomach twisted with a different kind of emptiness. Hunger. Sharp and demanding.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH629FbCT8t
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His gaze drifted across the organic floor. The ribbed walls. The pulsing tissue that surrounded him.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFI5tFfvAX
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All of it was flesh. Meat. Raw, certainly. Probably disgusting.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCcRTKCZuwz
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But edible.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YEWmURZ2k
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The thought arrived with crystalline clarity, and with it came a hysterical laugh that bubbled up from somewhere dark and twisted in his chest.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡihFZCRImGw
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He'd spent a year eating rotting meat crawling with maggots. Meat so far gone it barely qualified as organic matter anymore. He'd choked it down, vomited it back up, forced it down again until his body learned to accept poison as sustenance.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4caN0LW54Z
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Compared to that?151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIJ5SZ4NHl
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Fresh meat was practically a delicacy.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡigvYRXtV5k
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Cel carved a thin strip from the wall near the tooth's empty socket. The meat came away easily under Silent Moon's edge, warm and slick. He held it up in the blade's pale light, watching it glisten.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKAX2P5fB0
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His stomach turned. Not from the sight - he'd seen worse. But from what he was about to do.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIN2uRWp7j
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He put it in his mouth.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJqrCn3C77
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Nothing. No taste at all. Just texture - soft, yielding, oddly smooth.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡathnGY3UZn
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He chewed. The flesh gave way between his teeth - easier than the frost fragments, but still requiring effort to break down. Warm. Wet. The consistency of... nothing he could compare to. Nothing he'd ever eaten willingly.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmswQZVkY8
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His throat convulsed. The gag reflex hit hard, muscles spasming as his body tried to reject what he was forcing into it.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Nt0gPKTrZ
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Cel clenched his jaw, breathing hard through his nose. Forced his throat to relax. Swallowed.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKW3T1QUjfX
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The meat went down.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMK4yoHiz7X
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His stomach lurched. Rebelled. For a heartbeat he was certain it would come back up, that he'd vomit everything onto the floor and waste the effort.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBcwGhHp8K
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But his body remembered. Remembered a year of training, of learning to accept the unacceptable. The nausea peaked, held... then slowly receded.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TImVAYBEX
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He stood there gasping, bent forward. Waiting. Watching for the inevitable rejection.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRQKtnm288
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But it didn't come.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlc4o9fjQd
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Cel stared at the walls surrounding him. An entire creature's worth of food. Enough to sustain him for weeks if he could stomach it.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcUNkbXKm8
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He carved another strip from the wall and took a bite. Chewed. Swallowed. Gagged again - less violently this time - but kept it down.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7SZLaGDyj
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A third bite. Fourth. Fifth.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTtGjjzG6F
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By the tenth, the gagging had nearly stopped. His body was adapting, accepting this new reality the way it had accepted every other horror he'd forced upon it.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1xnUm6BwL
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When he finished the strip, Cel cut another. Then another. He ate methodically, without pleasure or disgust. Just the mechanical process of fuel entering his body.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjsVTk1i21
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Finally, when his stomach felt uncomfortably full, he stopped. Wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCibQVzbHxc
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"Right then." His voice was steadier now. Stronger. "Back to work."151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAUBY2x5ZI
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He approached the second tooth, blade in hand.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXAcYfFwMf
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Cel positioned Silent Moon at the tooth's base and drove it in deep.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5vyKFNCll
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The blade punched through flesh and scraped bone. He wrenched it free and drove it in again from a different angle, carving away the connective tissue.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00xfTOFVhu
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It went faster than the first tooth. His movements fell into rhythm - drive, wrench, reposition.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkK2H611ba
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The second tooth crashed to the floor. Then the third.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyzO7zevzc1
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By the fourth tooth, something had shifted. His mind had narrowed to this single task - nothing else existed except the tooth before him and the blade in his hand.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BmiYcqohy
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He glanced at Silent Moon between strikes.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZKzaduyrd
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Six crescents glowed along its length now. Two more than before.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Z4Ks0cHZr
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The blade felt different. When he drove it into the fifth tooth's socket, the steel slid through tissue like it wasn't there. What had met resistance before now carved freely. Silent Moon had grown sharper.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKClNapAI8s
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So the trait reacted with sharpness. The more crescents ignited, the keener the edge became.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtGYDLb2I5
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Each tooth fell faster than the last. His strikes remained wild and uncontrolled, but the blade carved through flesh as if it weren't there.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Br15hCznR
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The gap in the outer rings grew visible. Real progress.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWH8odAnfQ
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Time became meaningless in the darkness.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm79YHYgwt1
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Tenth. Fifteenth. Twentieth.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJtmUOh16Z
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His left hand bled where the hilt's friction had worn through skin. His right remained dead weight. Sweat and blood coated him. But he kept moving.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhoEG77DM7D
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How long had he been working? Hours? Days?151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYV44fMe9q
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The gap was clear now - wide enough to slip through if the creature opened its mouth.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJcdw3FaKc
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But dozens more teeth remained.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC04fpg9Vpf
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He turned toward the twenty-first tooth.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBg7xgbRKEK
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Exhaustion pressed down on him - heavy and insistent. His left hand throbbed where the skin had worn away. His arm ached from endless repetition. But beneath it all, his body remained vital. Strong. The divine resurrection had rebuilt him into something that could endure this.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRNHHh0ldB
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A year ago, half this work would have killed him.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQzb26jOc5
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Now? He could keep going.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFjYv5wduj
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Gratitude flickered through his chest - brief but genuine. This body - this gift - would not break easily.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVRWmnDu3Q
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He raised Silent Moon. Six crescents burned steadily along its length.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcfcD25jNWo
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He positioned the blade and drove it in.151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcJKkjsfgy
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Steel punched through flesh. He wrenched it free, repositioned—151Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawrfQC49qV
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