"Raven!"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTnd2JM8ZN
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The name echoed down into nothing.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8n2New21Gg
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Cel stumbled toward the edge - he could jump, follow them down, there had to be—153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvKkVi6IGs
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Something closed around his throat and the world lurched.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX086SQdiX1
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His vision swam, legs dangling in empty air. Fingers clawed at a wrist round his throat—how had—?153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPiHUvjJ4bd
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When it cleared, she stood before him.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHD0qCA83E
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Esrin Tempvolt.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPdqcdrf00
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No wings now - vanished as if they'd never existed. Just dark armor, ash-white hair and ruby red eyes.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4VHegbkNH
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His gaze darted past her. The volcano stood in the distance, a broken silhouette against the crimson sky. The massive creature lay collapsed in its core, smoke rising from its shattered body.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2u5wCgnLc
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His eyes snapped back to her. Not a scratch on her armor. Not a drop of sweat. Her breathing was steady, unhurried - like she'd taken a casual walk rather than fought something that could level mountains.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4auWNANXHe
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"Who are you?" Her voice was flat, emotionless - a demand, not a question.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1zbNxqAF8
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Cel couldn't breathe. His vision tunneled as pressure built.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzplm89Fs9u
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He forced words through the crushing grip. "Go... away."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Ew8Y3N834
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Her expression didn't change.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDqlvbm2Xy
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His hands clawed at her wrist. He reached for Frostmark—153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoq11oR2VCh
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Pain.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7rWlCdZDL
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The world became chaos. Stone. Burning ash. Crimson sky. All of it blurred as he flew through the air before slamming into a dune of ignited ash. The second impact drove him sideways. Third. Fourth. Each collision sent him careening in a new direction, his body ragdolling across the wasteland.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBtaM0H6WsI
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Everything went black.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQt9FeUuPc
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When awareness returned, he couldn't breathe.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlF50qrJEA5
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His chest seized. He tried to inhale - nothing. His body refused. Panic flooded through him as his lungs screamed for air that wouldn't come.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBlamBBLCd
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Blood surged up his throat.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqL7EcOYjvy
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He rolled onto his side, retching. Hot liquid poured from his mouth, choking him further. His throat worked uselessly, chest heaving in broken rhythm.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLVf1eW6I4
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More blood came up. His vision grayed at the edges.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jpxRZ0vYC
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He clawed at the ash, fingers digging in as his body convulsed again. Another wave of blood. His chest locked tighter.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIbdFdLJff
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'Breathe—'153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ40Pw6wgTDa
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Nothing.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUp4oQI3sI
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'BREATHE—'153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0UU3l8qgX
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His lungs finally obeyed.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡodXRBjFBQE
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Air rushed in - hot, full of ash. But real.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLTFLZ3CFy
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He sucked in desperate, ragged gasps between coughs that brought up more blood.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmoCGsE1l9u
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Footsteps crunched across burning ash.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ13i9BTzHbQ
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Not hurrying. Just the slow, inevitable advance of something that knew its prey had nowhere to run.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdHQt04EcS
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"Use that power on me again and I'll break every bone in your body before you hit the ground."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcthl8z4OjT
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He sucked in desperate breaths between coughs, blood still hot in his mouth.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCU33GdM1n
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Esrin was ten steps away. Nine.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DW8NPY7FK
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Cel's mind raced. He couldn't fight her. Couldn't run. Couldn't use Frostmark without her killing him before he hit the ground.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XrIrZ7teJ
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But there was something else. Something that might—153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi22VsPs7OY
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Eight steps.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2E3nv70wq
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Cel slammed his fist into the burning ash.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdJJjy4qdQ
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Seven steps.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡke6Cnv6qsE
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Again.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVWQvnH0eR
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'Come on.'153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKsZqQ14e9
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Six steps.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvqwlDBaXr
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Again. Harder.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5jhSe1to1
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'I know you're there!'153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQVXCZrztQ
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Five steps.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEd4FTseSQc
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The ground beneath him vanished.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKiKecxHc2v
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The Tremorborne erupted in an explosion of ash and stone, its circular maw opening wide as it surged upward with impossible speed.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdeCuJ6GPC
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Cel fell backward into that hungry darkness—153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtMcyYSIg7
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And as the maw began to close, as Esrin's expressionless face filled his vision one last time, his lips pulled back from bloodied teeth.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhwdCg6gVFS
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A smile. Savage and defiant.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICCB11baIP
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Then the maw snapped shut and darkness swallowed him once more.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bKd7sgUBN
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Esrin's eyes narrowed as the ground sealed itself.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQd5HAjQkV
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'His divine energy... I can't sense it at all.'153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMcI8qQdmJ
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The observation settled in her mind with uncomfortable weight. She'd encountered Chosen who masked their signatures before - but suppressing one's divine energy required absolute mastery. The kind of control that took decades to develop. But even then, it left traces. Ripples in the fabric of reality that marked where power had been suppressed.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xJAFCd3Lu
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This boy had nothing.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTpEjh92Py
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As if he simply... didn't exist in that regard.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zGemeSDSb
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'An artifact?'153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXzbTnxm7e
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White wings manifested from her back in a cascade of crackling lightning. She rose, ash swirling away from the displacement as she climbed toward the crimson sky.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhkvbr7vNN
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Her glaive materialized in her grip.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡToWxoUxXqc
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Lightning crackled across the blade - not the white-black energy of before, but something brighter. Purer. The weapon blazed with contained violence that made the air itself hum.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmRGSycTtU
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She drew back and hurled it.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ23o2r2bstC
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The glaive became a streak of blazing white, tearing through the air with a sound like ripping silk.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡimx8keSXnD
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It struck where the Tremorborne had vanished.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMTELghB0k
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Light.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeFj9Zci8Q
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Blinding, absolute light that turned the darkness into screaming white.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDCa5p48zS
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The shockwave hit first - a wall of pressure that compressed the worm's body inward. Then sound that wasn't sound but pure force translated into noise.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1zoTf5Sgc
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The Tremorborne's flesh detonated around him.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJvBdId4UB
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Chunks of obsidian armor flew outward in all directions. Tissue vaporized. The concentric rings of teeth shattered, fragments spinning away like shrapnel.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgCvneTYctS
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Cel's body tumbled through the expanding destruction, untouched by the devastation but thrown like a leaf in a storm. His vision was nothing but white. His ears rang with a tone so high it felt like silence.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXR9Ummeoy7
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He hit something solid.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFMbr15sUja
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The impact drove what little air remained from his lungs. His back slammed into stone, his head whipping back—153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFxe2WwJVkN
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Then stillness.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLOdOzcCAm
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The light faded by degrees. White to gray to the familiar crimson of the Ashlands sky.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWxOqrnyGB
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Cel lay at the bottom of a crater.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoPbC89NWj
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The walls rose around him in a perfect circle, the stone still smoking from the heat. Ash drifted in the air like snow.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dyRIxLoo4
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He couldn't move.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3uXhGg8jr2
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Not from injury - the blast had somehow missed him entirely. But from something deeper. Primal terror that locked every muscle tight, that made breathing feel like an act of will.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyYDTv2ucB
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The glaive stood embedded in the ground beside his head.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClD6RHfrzf
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So close he could see the intricate patterns etched into the blade, the way lightning still danced across its surface in fading arcs. Close enough that moving his head a fraction would bring his temple against its edge.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOxaiIaiKbC
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A shadow fell across him.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6oimm5440
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Esrin descended through the air, wings beating with slow, deliberate grace. Her boots touched down on the scorched stone with barely a whisper, one on either side of his torso.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8kmAMRwAc
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The white wings dissolved in a cascade of fading lightning, crackling out of existence as if they'd never been.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdDj4qjVGS
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She stood there for a moment, looking down at him with that same flat expression - as if killing a Defiled-rank creature and obliterating everything in a hundred-step radius was simply routine.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6SQQShsXT
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Cel's chest rose and fell in shallow breaths. His eyes were wide, unblinking. Every instinct screamed to run, to flee, to get away—153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUm5yGHFl6z
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But his body refused.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApF76efm43
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Esrin reached down.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1QZmYAmfW
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His eyes tracked her hand, his throat already tightening in anticipation— 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78odHJrajI
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She grasped the glaive's hilt.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAXJcH3f80
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The weapon came free with a soft whisper of steel against stone.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvJSavtM9S
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She held it loosely at her side, the blade still crackling with residual energy.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKvlo5PGLy
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"You're wasting my time."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQChVs1KgjG
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Cel's jaw worked. Blood coated his teeth, his tongue. When words finally came, they scraped like broken glass.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPnES21NF6
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"Then... leave."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPavlAMGXf2
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Silence answered him.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Cu4jaTGAJ
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Esrin's gaze remained fixed on him, flat and emotionless. Seconds stretched.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdc5bW61TKe
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"What's your name?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYqk5igi5k
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The question came without warning, without context.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDV3TEkfDDv
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"Celvian."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyozAn8Xjz
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"Your patron god?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4oiDgtHfH
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His throat tightened. "The Moon Goddess."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zxxiqAVJO
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Her eyes tracked to his snow-white hair, to his glacial-blue eyes, then to the armor covering his battered form.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRlFis4hGa
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"How old are you?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9W08VvGCa
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"Sixteen."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ13PjUQ4Jmw
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For a single heartbeat, the cold assessment in her eyes softened. Not to warmth - but to something that looked like she'd just confirmed a suspicion she'd hoped was wrong.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7myUGRKVSd
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"How did a sixteen-year-old Moon Chosen end up in the Hollow Realms?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA68piXd7yD
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Cel's fingers dug into scorched stone. The truth would reveal too much - his origin as a noble, his father's betrayal, his year of torture. All of it weakness she could exploit.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHNTMs0GFa
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His jaw clenched as rage flared hot in his chest.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1OvSE1QcBj
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They were his to kill. His vengeance. His blood to spill when he grew strong enough to make them scream.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88y2OhJZYP
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But if he could set a Hallowed on them first? Watch them scramble like rats as Esrin Tempvolt tore through their compound? See them taste fear before he came for what remained?153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZvRWxM4N4
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The thought settled in his chest like cold satisfaction.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKICk7SJCF
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"The Children of the Voidmother." His voice came raw. "They threw me through a rift. To seal it."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bXYJe1i3j
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Esrin's expression hardened - the only real emotion he'd seen from her. Her jaw set in a way that suggested this information mattered.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡysooahiLOt
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"The cult." Not a question. A statement laced with something cold.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bwq9xVSr4
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He nodded.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxJLCI0LHm
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Silence stretched again. Esrin remained perfectly still, gaze fixed on him with that same calculating intensity. Weighing. Deciding.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ98p92H4opF
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Cel kept his mouth shut. Every instinct told him that speaking now - saying anything more - would be a mistake. One wrong word and she'd start asking questions he had no safe answers for.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOoDT78GrGe
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He couldn't risk that.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAG2oJ2hgzU
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So he stayed silent, even as his body screamed in pain, even as blood continued to drip from his mouth. Waiting for her verdict.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblOQgFiS8V
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Finally, something in her posture shifted - subtle as a blade finding its sheath.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKRDwo9Cfj
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"You're not what I came here for." She dismissed her glaive, lightning crackling once before the weapon dissolved. "But leaving a Chosen to die in the Ashlands serves no purpose."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnQQMhgkim
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The clinical assessment in her tone made it clear this wasn't mercy. Just... efficiency. A waste of resources to let him rot here.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0uCX6Lya3T
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"I'm taking you out of here."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKu37hfx0vt
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Cel's body went rigid. "I can leave on my own."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RF3XH0m0f
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He braced his hands against the scorched stone. Every muscle screamed in protest as he forced himself up. His arms shook. His legs threatened to buckle. But he made it - swaying on unsteady feet, refusing to fall.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡriKPWBGLNq
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"Can you?" Her gaze swept across his bloodied form. "You can barely stand."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGT0s9nwiE
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"And whose fault is that?"153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryXoczvXR0
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The words came sharper than intended, edged with pain and defiance.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83Ny6xKh4u
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Esrin's expression didn't change. No flicker of guilt, no acknowledgment of what she'd done to him. Just that same flat assessment.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNttmwmmt5V
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"Mine." The admission came without hesitation or apology - a simple statement of fact. "Which is why I'm not leaving you here to die from it."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0vn0awL0PV
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Her hand moved to a pouch at her belt before he could respond. When she withdrew it, something rested in her palm - a flat stone perhaps the size of a coin, covered in symbols that writhed when looked at directly.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ht9ZRTtUJ
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Her fingers closed around it.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe5HLn7S8Y8
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The stone shattered.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcHeg0g9eS
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Not cracked - pulverized. Fragments turned to dust that slipped between her fingers, dissolving before hitting the ground.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGifB3Q3w3
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Violet light erupted from where the stone had been.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfFi3CsSWn
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Cel's eyes widened.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyIUIL78fG4
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A rift tore itself into existence - but wrong. All wrong.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbShWx7ifkY
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The edges didn't shimmer. They crackled - sharp, violent bursts of energy that fought against their own existence. The violet light bleeding through wasn't steady. It pulsed, writhed, twisted back on itself in patterns that made his eyes water.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2rxsfuhJU
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'That's not possible.'153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqbd5AmazK
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Creating rifts was impossible. Even for the Hallowed. Rifts were tears in reality that formed naturally, that could only be found and sealed, never created.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyeiCXGeEv
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Yet here it stood, crackling with violent energy, defying every law he'd been taught.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasUvy77b9C
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'She just... she just created a rift.' The thought repeated itself, unable to find purchase against the impossibility before him.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwYVRHgmBY
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Raven's voice echoed in his memory: 'You can trust her. She will protect you.'153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RaP0DhuT4
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Esrin Tempvolt. The woman every noble child had been taught to admire - proof that strength and honor could coexist. The pinnacle of grace and power that young ladies aspired to emulate. 153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF88G1KvIdu
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And Raven had been certain. Even knowing she hunted him, he'd told Cel to trust her.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3Nvpbc1Qo
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Esrin stepped toward the impossible rift, then glanced back. "Stay close. The passage is disorienting."153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe22R12FJK2
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Cel stared at her extended hand.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAysduNmD9
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She'd nearly killed him. Had thrown him across the wasteland like garbage. Had threatened to break every bone in his body.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ekqws0V7P
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But everything Cel had ever learned said the Hallowed were humanity's greatest protectors. That Esrin Tempvolt was someone worth believing in.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBnLsWo4jD
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His fingers closed around hers.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡht3X4JDFSZ
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He had no choice. Fighting Esrin was suicide. Running was impossible. And if Raven had been right about trusting her…153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYn4E1Rrf3b
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'I'm sorry, Raven.'153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo3V6kooxkL
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The thought was brief, nearly drowned by everything else screaming through his mind. But it was there.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4PnygRZ1wC
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She pulled him forward without hesitation, her grip firm but not painful. They stepped through together.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpeMoOkig91
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The world inverted.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWditqFcUGf
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Violet light swallowed everything. Up became down became sideways became nothing. Cel's stomach lurched as gravity lost meaning. The only constant was Esrin's hand, anchoring him while reality twisted around them.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGljdqtu430
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Then it stopped.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7c5OL9VqO
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Solid ground materialized beneath his feet.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jJA9NTHAE
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Cel's vision cleared by degrees.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUTtCJteM0
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They stood on an island of land suspended in—what exactly?153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9BU2wY9AGu
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Violet void stretched in every direction - not empty, but crackling with that same violent energy. Lightning arced through the emptiness in branching patterns, illuminating depths that had no bottom.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0WUwB9aqt
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And in the center of the floating land stood a manor.153Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmeftXcoHta
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