Cold pressed against burned skin.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEJoOUtz30
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Cel's eyes cracked open. Gray light filtered through crystal formations that no longer glowed with lethal intensity. The four suns had set. Night's mercy had returned.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzabIraVRny
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He'd survived - somehow.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CH9HvjLaC
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His body hadn't moved. He was still slumped against the creature's spine, still impaled through the palm on the crystal spike. Dark blood had dried in trails down his forearm, staining hide beneath him.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbkAOdUtok
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The creature's breathing moved in slow, steady rhythm. It had stopped walking. Settled down to rest while he'd been unconscious.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzD0I4eXLD2
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Cel stared at the spike protruding from both sides of his hand.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbo6jcrgP39
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He needed to move. Needed to climb down before the creature woke and while darkness still gave him cover from the heat.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENVloAJ4zP
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But his body refused.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNNG1xUrkr
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Every muscle screamed. His skin was burned. His lips split. His throat beyond dry. He had no strength left.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgeOr1rtVm
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Yet his left hand twitched anyway. Fingers closed around a ridge.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBaP0gqHGG
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He pulled.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblsjqmAtUl
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Nothing happened.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXPLSlEXbN
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He pulled harder.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJQcBVqXbA
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His body shifted an inch. Then another. Pain exploded through his impaled hand as the crystal scraped against bone. But he didn't stop. He couldn't stop. Not here. Not now.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtscOKVtqX
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With a wet sound, his palm slid free of the spike.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiErzdp27v
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Blood flowed fresh. He pressed the ruined hand against his chest and pushed himself upright with his left arm. His legs trembled beneath him, threatening to give out.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGScaTGiIz
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One foot in front of the other.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMO7kOQkOW
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His left hand gripped crystal edges. His right hung useless at his side, leaving a trail of blood droplets. Pain accompanied each movement.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbF861n51aI
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Finally, his feet touched solid ground.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnqVT7GhUn
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His legs buckled immediately.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8b3SetP6w
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Cel collapsed onto crystal shards, his impaled hand slamming onto the ground. The impact sent a fresh wave of pain up his arm. He bit down on a scream his ruined ears wouldn't hear.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynKe10webl
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He should be dead.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOV1sRv2UaW
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The thought arrived with perfect clarity. No fever haze. No delirium. Just cold, factual assessment.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQntYPYLgqX
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He'd been starved for over a year. Beaten and bled by cultists who used him for their twisted experiments. Forced to eat rotting meat until his sense of taste died completely. Transported to this nightmare after nearly dying in the Hollow Realms. Crossed the crystal maze under four blazing suns that permanently destroyed his hearing. Suffered burns and cuts across most of his body. Dragged into a lake of mirrors where reflections of everyone who’d tormented him nearly shatter his mind completely. Gone two days without water in killing heat. Impaled his own hand just to stay conscious while clinging to a creature that could crush him by chance, unaware he even existed.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5S9pNhzww
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His body should have quit a dozen times over.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJrHuT5M3Q
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Yet somehow, his heart kept beating. His lungs kept pulling air. Some stubborn piece of him - rage perhaps, or simple spite - refused to let go.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoA8l9YZYQj
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But he couldn't stand. Not anymore.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXzlNR6Ykv
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Cel pressed his forehead against the ground, blood from his split lips wetting his mouth. His chest heaved with each breath. The night air felt impossibly cold against his burnt skin, every nerve screaming at the contrast.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsX4IXTEAtl
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He knew he wouldn't survive another day in this crystal maze.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6uuX73ICj
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His left arm trembled as he pushed himself up. Made it to his knees before his vision grayed at the edges. He stopped. Breathed. Waited for the world to solidify.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJSoH5jKlT
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One knee forward. Then the other. Crawling like an animal through scattered crystal fragments that bit into his palms and shins.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhBKgz2Nm4
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His right hand dragged uselessly, leaving a trail of blood across stone and crystal. Each time his weight shifted onto it, fresh agony bloomed. He learned to favor the left, to distribute his weight differently.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbzx2CtuVh
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Progress came through painful effort. Each movement a small victory of will over flesh.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjsqfVx1kt
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‘Just keep moving. Don't think. Don't stop.’135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvlYS3mYEp
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His left palm pressed against something smooth. He blinked, trying to focus through the haze.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWHK2Sr8kc
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The ground had changed. No more scattered shards biting into his skin. The surface beneath him felt almost polished, worn smooth by something he couldn't name.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTIX0rJqv5
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‘When did that happen?’135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl6bzdfmzqY
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Cel lifted his head, squinting into the gloom.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfTddkI76k
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The crystal nearest him rose at least twice his height. He followed its line upward - three times his height. Four. The crystal stretched toward the sky like a cathedral pillar, its surface flawless and vast.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCxBhfkCy4S
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He turned his head left. Another massive formation. Right. Three more, each one dwarfing anything he'd seen in the outer maze. They pressed closer together too, their bases nearly touching, creating narrow gaps between them that twisted at angles his eyes couldn't quite follow.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BNmWjDVY3
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‘Just how far did that creature carry me?’ The thought arrived slowly, fighting through exhaustion. 135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9VXkrHcmK
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He'd been barely conscious during the journey. Had felt the creature's movement beneath him, the hours passing in fragments of awareness. But he hadn't truly comprehended the distance. Hadn't realized—135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61xSckE5pF
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A shadow moved between the crystals.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0KzJGN0sZg
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Cel froze.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIUGUelgaE
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The darkness shifted.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZiicANcNpF
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Bone gleamed pale between the formations. A skull emerged first - violet light burning in empty sockets, jagged crystal jutting from the crown like a broken halo. Ribs came next, each one studded with crystalline growths that formed a cage around the hollow chest.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjo2IeKLZvI
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The skeleton's left leg dragged behind - crystal had swallowed the bone completely. The limb scraped across stone with each step, leaving trails through dust.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIH04vFK6Ie
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The skull rotated.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq95iguK4hY
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Violet light locked onto him.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWR8zYV9SwU
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‘Shit.’135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqAwQ4lASD
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Cel's breath caught. His arms were already shaking from the crawling. His body had nothing left. The thought of standing - of running - was laughable.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZE2QPCkJBg
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The skeleton took another step. The crystal-encased leg dragged behind, slowing its approach but not stopping it.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6lvSu3a9b
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Another step.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfci8zhc65p
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Cel’s left arm shifted. Then his knee. He dragged himself forward - away from the approaching thing. 135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFQid8jSke
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Too slow.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeF9Nnaigf
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He forced himself forward another pull. His right hand screamed. His vision blurred. The skeleton closed the distance with grinding steps, narrowing the gap with each of his pitiful retreats.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4c6Y0BYcA
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‘I can't… there's nowhere—’135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡks1mJPSI8R
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The world shook.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHq2XZBIO9n
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Cel's arms buckled. He hit the ground hard, cheek slamming against smooth stone. The surface beneath him rippled, sending violent vibrations up through his bones. Crystal formations around him blazed brighter, their hum rising to a shriek.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3tV9KbvcT
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He twisted his head.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdI6P4vdoHr
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In the distance - far beyond the dense forest of crystal formations around him - something caught his eye. A sliver of the great spire, barely visible between towering formations.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC38rV4gvVx
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Its light was gone.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiph9dur8Rw
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The violet glow that had always pulsed through its core had died completely. The structure was collapsing - its top already fractured, massive chunks breaking away and tumbling down its length. The destruction spread like infection, racing through crystal with terrible speed.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1iKzuZCA7
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Then the fragments hit the ground.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8p4MyZeLa
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The impact slammed through the maze. The floor heaved beneath Cel like a living thing. He flattened himself against stone as the shock wave rolled through, strong enough to make his jaw clench and his vision shake.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBHBCn9Lctv
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The skeleton stumbled, its crystal-heavy leg unable to compensate. It crashed to one knee, skull turning toward the distant destruction.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpmRD16buu
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Cel didn't wait.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcJOzul81S
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He dragged himself forward with desperate strength, ignoring the pain, ignoring everything except the need to put distance between himself and that thing. One arm length. Two. His muscles screamed. His vision tunneled.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxpe296xoQ
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His left hand reached forward and found nothing but air.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQW5npMklQ7
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‘Huh?’135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7lKH7Q6nBY
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Cel stopped, panting, staring at the edge that had appeared impossibly before him. A massive chasm split the maze - a wound in the earth so wide that it could easily swallow an entire city.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXCemQwn59
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Behind him, crystal scraped against stone.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jV2YLsH5S
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He twisted his head back.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWmfaw0UUj
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The skeleton had risen. Its crowned skull was fixed on him now, violet light burning in empty sockets. It moved forward with renewed purpose, dragging its ruined leg behind, closing the distance between them.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucrSgbA6YH
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Cel tried to crawl sideways along the chasm's edge. His arms gave out after two pulls. He collapsed flat, watching the thing approach.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtnZi1TNSsx
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Ten feet away. Eight. Six.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOXaJu1sow
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The skeleton loomed over him, blocking out the moonless sky. Crystal growth caught what little light remained, creating shadows that danced across its bones. Its jaw hung open in a permanent scream. One skeletal hand reached down, fingers spreading to grasp—135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvBnRlzTZ9
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It stopped.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7neAOP2i4u
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The crowned skull tilted downward. But not at Cel. Past him.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV1M7clt9Wz
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Into the chasm.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtiHhGrk1P
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Cel's breath came in ragged gasps as he watched the thing's posture change. The reaching hand withdrew. The skeleton turned away from him, its violet gaze locked on something in the depths below.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp9zBK6Gwev
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Then it stepped over him.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRuSv2922b3
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Cel felt the scrape of its crystal leg against his back as it straddled his body. Felt the thing's weight shift. A moment later, it was past him, standing at the very edge of the chasm.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsump7OZ6TB
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It jumped.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcBLD9XZzt
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No hesitation. No pause. Just a simple, decisive leap off the edge and into darkness.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2isQIbGDTp
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The skeleton disappeared. Swallowed by the abyss as if it had never existed.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7a2abVH4DH
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Silence returned. 135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzsb54zNBAP
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Cel lay motionless at the precipice, too exhausted to process what he'd just witnessed.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Uc0mX00Iw
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‘What... what was that?’135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOb7ewFWbBZ
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His left arm trembled as he dragged himself forward. Just an inch. Enough to peer over the edge.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2CQNWitCB
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Now, it is a repetThe depths disappeared beyond sight. No bottom visible. Just endless descent into violet-lit darkness that made his stomach clench. The chasm walls were studded with massive crystal formations, each one larger than any he'd seen in the maze above, jutting outward in chaotic clusters.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtt1U5SDlKU
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But deep within - far, far below - something else glowed.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQqUIc447WX
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White light. Not violet.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SwFIJM2yD
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It pulsed gently, steady and alive. The rhythm matched something in his chest, a pull he felt in his bones.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvKMIVrdT4
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‘The skeleton saw this. Saw it and jumped without hesitation.’ Cel stared into the abyss, trying to comprehend what he was seeing. 135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7c4dtCeU4
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The creature had carried him impossibly far - the spire had been barely visible before it collapsed. The maze had transformed around him while he'd clung to consciousness. Larger. Denser. More concentrated. As if all its power was converging on this single point.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJlYuvLxlo
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He'd survived everything only to end up here, at the maze's deepest reaches. Too weak to crawl. Too broken to do anything but stare into depths that should terrify him.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmZOhSEPyW
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But that light…135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbf66L1if2
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That light was different.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXm4IEli678
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It felt almost like… hope.135Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5Zpxe3srI
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