Cel stared down past the thrashing creature, past the torn flesh and pooling blood, into the stomach far below.135Please respect copyright.PENANAgckxSeAKJL
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The glow was spreading. Rising.135Please respect copyright.PENANADQIvokJqHT
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Something hot and ancient stirred in those depths - corrosive fire that promised to turn everything in this throat to ash.135Please respect copyright.PENANAovSdYvsD1B
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Red light painted the ribbed walls in hellish hues. The stench hit his nose - sharp, acrid, burning with each breath.135Please respect copyright.PENANAq0t69HPoNZ
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The smaller creature shrieked in rising panic. Its claws gouged frantically at the throat's walls, shredding flesh in its desperation to escape.135Please respect copyright.PENANARJv43l9xmu
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Heat flooded upward through the worm's body - not seeping, but rushing like water through a broken dam. The flesh around him began to cook. The organic walls steamed, moisture evaporating in seconds.135Please respect copyright.PENANAsfsUGC7L3l
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Instinct screamed at him before understanding caught up.135Please respect copyright.PENANAZbglDjt5NC
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The worm was going to breathe fire.135Please respect copyright.PENANAFzZ7x74eNr
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And there was nowhere in this entire throat that would protect him from it.135Please respect copyright.PENANACifM7slLoq
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The socket wouldn't save him. The walls offered no shelter. The teeth were his only exit - but the thrashing creature blocked the way, a whirlwind of claws between him and freedom.135Please respect copyright.PENANAH0DRh5cjK2
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Cel's mind raced through options with crystalline clarity.135Please respect copyright.PENANACAzgU4cwUR
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He could try to slip past. Risk those claws tearing him apart while the molten breath rose behind him.135Please respect copyright.PENANALogToQaNof
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Or…135Please respect copyright.PENANAYsRWS1oRen
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His gaze locked on the creature's stone-like back.135Please respect copyright.PENANAFbJNfLswY1
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'Use it as a shield.' The thought arrived cold and certain. 135Please respect copyright.PENANAsecu4lDRIx
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The smaller creature was already dead - it just didn't know it yet. But its body could shield him. Give him a chance to survive the coming inferno.135Please respect copyright.PENANAY1kAN2Utc0
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But would its flesh hold against that heat?135Please respect copyright.PENANAj08riNChEJ
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Doubtful.135Please respect copyright.PENANA06i0Zc5omu
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If he reinforced it though…135Please respect copyright.PENANAdk5HLRhYW8
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Cel threw himself out of the socket.135Please respect copyright.PENANA3XAxrJxpzZ
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His feet hit the slick floor and he immediately launched forward - not toward the exit, but toward the thrashing nightmare between him and freedom.135Please respect copyright.PENANAfXWnriUwh7
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The creature was a whirlwind of violence. Its claws tore at the throat's walls with mindless fury, ripping away chunks of flesh in sprays of blood. Its serpentine body coiled and writhed, every movement driven by pure animal panic as the red light grew brighter below.135Please respect copyright.PENANAPyquzmltYH
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Cel dove into that chaos.135Please respect copyright.PENANAc5kAqj06uJ
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A claw swept past his face - so close he felt the displaced air. He twisted, using momentum to drive his shoulder into the creature's side. The impact jarred through his already wounded body, but it gave him what he needed.135Please respect copyright.PENANAw4znJflOXT
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Contact.135Please respect copyright.PENANAs8kYLfbLYT
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His left hand slammed flat against the thing's stone-like back, and frost spread across its skin in a spreading wave.135Please respect copyright.PENANAwSTU8crWT1
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It shrieked - metal dragged across bone - and whipped its entire body around with murderous intent. The thing that had been panicking about the worm was now focused on a new, immediate threat: whatever was touching it needed to die.135Please respect copyright.PENANATYCvhhg3KL
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Its remaining claws found Cel's chest.135Please respect copyright.PENANAV38fzHrFm7
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Four lines of white-hot agony opened from collarbone to ribs. Blood sprayed across both of them. The creature twisted in his grip like a serpent, trying to tear itself free, trying to reach his face with those needle-ringed teeth.135Please respect copyright.PENANAmbif9WGIeQ
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Cel grabbed it with his left arm and squeezed it against his body despite the pain.135Please respect copyright.PENANAFCwgXApOJ1
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He wasn't trying to restrain it completely - that would be impossible. The creature was too strong, too frenzied. But he could redirect it. Turn its ice-armored back toward the depths below while keeping his own body behind that frozen shield.135Please respect copyright.PENANAp708wML8Vm
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The creature's assault became even more vicious. Claws raked his arms, his shoulders, his jaw - anywhere they could reach. Each strike opened fresh wounds.135Please respect copyright.PENANAXi31JytZDQ
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But Cel held on.135Please respect copyright.PENANAZK49mpaE2y
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Held his living shield between himself and the approaching death.135Please respect copyright.PENANA3j9osRLG0c
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The red light reached blinding intensity.135Please respect copyright.PENANAWtivDyygag
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Heat slammed into the ice-armored back with the force of an avalanche. The frost cracked, shattered, reformed under his intent in rapid succession as impossible temperature met divine cold in explosive conflict.135Please respect copyright.PENANAenGoIjEnO6
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But heat bled through anyway. The creature shrieked - not just fury now, but agony. The heat was cooking it from behind despite the frost, charring flesh the ice couldn't fully protect.135Please respect copyright.PENANAlaYLDX4pFW
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Cel's skin reddened, then blistered, then began to char under temperatures meant to melt stone. 135Please respect copyright.PENANALD0tyhdGKf
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His left arm, wrapped around the creature to anchor the ice against its back, suffered worst. With no frost between flesh and hide, the heat had direct access. The burn went deep, sustained, eating through skin with methodical cruelty.135Please respect copyright.PENANA9bF6oSElIy
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Then the pressure wave hit.135Please respect copyright.PENANA8eVwjbEvUq
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They were launched from the worm's maw like stones from a catapult - hurled into the night sky with such violent force that Cel's vision went white. The creature's weight became meaningless. His grip broke and they tumbled through empty air, spinning, separated by sheer momentum.135Please respect copyright.PENANAllsq967LBu
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The world spun in chaotic fragments - ash, moonlight, obsidian stones vomited from the worm's stomach alongside them. Massive fragments larger than his entire body flew through the air in a deadly storm, their razor edges catching silver light.135Please respect copyright.PENANA0ujc2YY5lS
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Cel's back slammed into ash-covered ground with bone-crushing force. The air exploded from his lungs. He rolled, tumbled, limbs flailing as momentum carried him across the wasteland.135Please respect copyright.PENANAbTLqiPVjO4
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Obsidian stones rained down around him.135Please respect copyright.PENANAxb7QsRGuzp
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One struck his leg - a glancing blow that sent fresh agony lancing through already burned flesh. Another whipped past his face, close enough to feel the heat of its passage, before it slammed into the ground somewhere behind him in his spin.135Please respect copyright.PENANAfIta5SwI4L
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He hit the ground three more times during his uncontrolled tumble before finally stopping, sprawled face-down in ash that clung to his wounds like salt in open cuts.135Please respect copyright.PENANA3Kx30E0o0q
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For several heartbeats, he couldn't move. Couldn't breathe. His body simply refused to obey, overwhelmed by accumulated damage.135Please respect copyright.PENANAihkJe6cr8v
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Then his lungs remembered their purpose.135Please respect copyright.PENANAoD9pL7xNTt
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Air rushed in - painful, burning, but real.135Please respect copyright.PENANA2AK5kd7WKo
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Cel pushed himself up slowly, ash cascading from his back in gray streams. The air was thick with it - choking clouds stirred up by the worm's breath and the rain of obsidian. 135Please respect copyright.PENANAec8K0VrIIA
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He blinked hard, trying to clear his vision.135Please respect copyright.PENANANvM2IMjnuS
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Movement in the distance caught his attention.135Please respect copyright.PENANAaO8mvpxlKM
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The massive worm.135Please respect copyright.PENANAwwL8R5k9XX
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Still surfaced. Its enormous body writhed above ground, steam rising from its open maw where the molten breath had scorched even its own flesh. For a moment it remained there, coiled like a conqueror surveying its domain.135Please respect copyright.PENANA83lfhPiLgk
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Then it began to sink.135Please respect copyright.PENANAqS3yZvD54L
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Slowly at first, then faster. The ground opened beneath it - not violently, but as if the earth itself welcomed the creature home. Within seconds, nothing remained. Stone sealed behind it like water closing over a dropped pebble.135Please respect copyright.PENANAcNdwEWPCU7
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Gone.135Please respect copyright.PENANAmUkZYCTN0j
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Cel's gaze swept across the wasteland.135Please respect copyright.PENANA97QV4r3VFx
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The destruction was absolute. Where the breath had touched, the ground was scorched black, cracked like dried clay. Obsidian stones littered the landscape - some still glowing faint red with residual heat, others already cooling to dull black. Ash drifted through the air in lazy spirals, settling over everything in a fresh gray shroud.135Please respect copyright.PENANAx762a3xvJo
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Then he saw it.135Please respect copyright.PENANAz7B5Poy0N2
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The smaller creature lay perhaps fifteen steps away, broken and steaming. Its body was shattered - body bent at an angle that shouldn't exist, its remaining arm twisted beneath its torso. Parts of its stone-like skin had cracked from extreme temperature shifts—frozen, then cooked, then frozen again.135Please respect copyright.PENANAEaJeRiOla8
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But Cel's gaze didn't linger.135Please respect copyright.PENANASMGNy4rMI0
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Movement behind the creature caught his attention - something massive shifting on the horizon.135Please respect copyright.PENANAi3w5vcX8mS
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His eyes traveled past the broken body, past the scattered obsidian, to what lay beyond.135Please respect copyright.PENANAgBGyECFXtz
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Ice flooded his veins.135Please respect copyright.PENANAsVYYKTIIaD
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A wall of ash rose in the distance - impossibly tall, impossibly wide. Not drifting lazily like the settling dust around him, but spinning. Churning. A massive tornado of gray and black that devoured everything in its path, advancing across the wasteland with relentless purpose.135Please respect copyright.PENANAvHE5NblNAa
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The sound reached him a heartbeat later - a low, hollow roar that seemed to come from the earth itself.135Please respect copyright.PENANAMMP0sPsWJV
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Cel spun around, scanning desperately for shelter.135Please respect copyright.PENANAPaPEtbYDRY
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Distant shapes jutted from the wasteland - ruins, their crumbling walls half-buried in ash. Ancient, crumbling, but they offered something better than standing exposed in the open.135Please respect copyright.PENANAt13OwOgKmR
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He ran.135Please respect copyright.PENANAWfSxzwDKWI
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His enhanced legs launched him forward in powerful, uneven strides. Each step carried him farther than expected, his burned and clawed body protesting the abuse, but fear drove him harder than pain ever could.135Please respect copyright.PENANAKeOEXlsg20
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The roar grew louder behind him. Closer.135Please respect copyright.PENANAtUAifzYBnC
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Movement flickered in his peripheral vision.135Please respect copyright.PENANAdMX56PcHMc
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Cel's head snapped sideways.135Please respect copyright.PENANAQU1RslSCcP
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The smaller creature had risen.135Please respect copyright.PENANAGlOPzJNQd0
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Its shattered body dragged itself forward with impossible determination, stone-like skin cracked and bleeding, leaving a trail of dark ichor through the ash. But its eyeless head tracked him with perfect accuracy.135Please respect copyright.PENANAVR6FQSKLy2
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It was following him.135Please respect copyright.PENANAWsKty5f2q0
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'You've got to be kidding me.'135Please respect copyright.PENANAk3iwQxqklR
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The thing launched itself forward, its single arm clawing at the ground in desperate pulls, dragging its broken body in a lurching charge driven by pure animal rage.135Please respect copyright.PENANAL4VijwwbHF
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The frost. The burns. Being used as a meat shield - the creature remembered. And it wanted revenge.135Please respect copyright.PENANADLuohF2zXN
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"Mindless bastard!" Cel snarled, pushing harder. "That's going to kill us both!"135Please respect copyright.PENANA9EoMFtCE6O
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But the creature didn't care. Didn't even glance at the approaching tornado. Its needle-ringed mouth opened in a shriek of pure fury, focused entirely on the one who had hurt it.135Please respect copyright.PENANAFzOMVKV6P7
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And that was Cel.135Please respect copyright.PENANAgM71BJhPvO
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The ruins grew closer. Twenty steps. Fifteen.135Please respect copyright.PENANApEQdhcmnqI
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Behind him, the creature was gaining. Its broken body moved with terrifying speed, driven by something beyond reason.135Please respect copyright.PENANAo1ZfvTtMrY
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Ten steps.135Please respect copyright.PENANA6gekAJib4d
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The roar became deafening. Cel felt the air pressure change against his back, a physical force that pushed him forward even as it pulled ash into spiraling chaos around him. 135Please respect copyright.PENANARJssl9TplD
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Five steps.135Please respect copyright.PENANA7IXi8bOfPT
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Behind him, the creature lunged.135Please respect copyright.PENANAiBI5ZaScuh
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Cel threw himself forward in a desperate dive.135Please respect copyright.PENANASaO4l1bmB1
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The creature's claws whistled past his head as he plunged through a gap in the crumbling wall, his shoulder slamming into ancient stone as he tumbled inside. 135Please respect copyright.PENANAdpMW4qlQPM
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Then the ash storm hit.135Please respect copyright.PENANAExVzJdUmD0
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The creature's silhouette vanished - consumed by the gray wall that crashed over the ruins like a wave. Its shriek cut off abruptly, swallowed by the hollow roar.135Please respect copyright.PENANAZxd6Dj5QJ0
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The world disappeared.135Please respect copyright.PENANACISnUlMFCo
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Cel's chest heaved, relief flooding through him.135Please respect copyright.PENANAB3Thc53y4H
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But that relief was short-lived.135Please respect copyright.PENANAxEcU7mvkAx
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Ash poured through every gap in the broken walls, thick as water, choking and absolute. The ruins offered shelter but not sanctuary - wind howled through the structure's wounds, carrying stinging debris that tore at exposed skin.135Please respect copyright.PENANA78Zdm70QZy
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Cel curled against the ground, arms wrapped over his head, trying to make himself as small as possible. Stone fragments and ash hammered against his back.135Please respect copyright.PENANAMmXirQN7O1
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He pressed his face into the crook of his elbow, one hand cupped over his mouth and nose, breathing in short, desperate gasps. Even filtered, the air tasted of sulfur and ancient dust.135Please respect copyright.PENANA8mD5Tmfhva
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The roar consumed everything - thought, sensation, awareness. Just sound, pressure and the terrible fear that the walls around him might not hold, that the ruins might collapse and bury him alive in this dead world's fury.135Please respect copyright.PENANA0mfiT1FZry
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Time became meaningless. Seconds stretched into minutes stretched into—135Please respect copyright.PENANARs2rhXDHMc
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The stone beneath him cracked.135Please respect copyright.PENANAh4B50fQIAx
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Cel's eyes snapped open just as the floor split apart directly below his chest.135Please respect copyright.PENANAEQdQOtlsLs
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He threw himself sideways, rolling across ash-covered stone as the ground gave way. His burned left arm screamed.135Please respect copyright.PENANAaGO5ebADXF
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That broken, vengeful thing erupted from below in an explosion of ash and fury.135Please respect copyright.PENANAQcJqWSONlu
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It burst through the widening crack - shattered body twisted at impossible angles, stone-like skin cracked and weeping dark ichor.135Please respect copyright.PENANAjqiuglU1t5
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The eyeless head whipped toward him.135Please respect copyright.PENANARpWBOaHqdP
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Its needle-ringed mouth opened in a shriek that cut through even the storm's roar.135Please respect copyright.PENANAUGFdA1H1aj
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Cel scrambled backward through swirling ash.135Please respect copyright.PENANAAY2NwYo747
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Silent Moon materialized in his left grip.135Please respect copyright.PENANAbuEqnVrT4x
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Four crescents ignited along the blade's length.135Please respect copyright.PENANAq0akI5dfWV
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The creature lunged.135Please respect copyright.PENANACZ6e9Ox68N
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As promised, I've created a Discord server for Lunar Legacy!135Please respect copyright.PENANAypVCLIwu6F
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Think of it as our little playground - a space for the you to connect and for me to keep you updated on what's going on.135Please respect copyright.PENANAeXzB1afbxw
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