Cold pressed against burned skin.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGj00uJKtM
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8AM4NwG2n
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He'd survived - somehow.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtklxeSYNFa
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIa3915D7lT
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqFZvkxV27Q
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Cel stared at the spike protruding from both sides of his hand.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfYJ6VsPmQ
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFfcgYlDds
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But his body refused.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2czaW40wBJ
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Every muscle screamed. His skin was burned. His lips split. His throat beyond dry. He had no strength left.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvzs96d073
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Yet his left hand twitched anyway. Fingers closed around a ridge.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0meqy79zIO
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He pulled.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4z6AOUiG6x
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Nothing happened.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGsqmYzFC9Q
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He pulled harder.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmvlH9P23N
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudbKb3BSb7
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With a wet sound, his palm slid free of the spike.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMrgj3YgoS
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyTedIzU8f
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One foot in front of the other.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgBJ8sEaeU
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbDaqagYoe
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Finally, his feet touched solid ground.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLw8mIIXL4Y
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His legs buckled immediately.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcbIAJua5m
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbj9iowny4
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He should be dead.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPuareFzac
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The thought arrived with perfect clarity. No fever haze. No delirium. Just cold, factual assessment.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Ag8QY4S7t
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zqDMCZiVT
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His body should have quit a dozen times over.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUyruaHbVNh
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqkUZW8f4t
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But he couldn't stand. Not anymore.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4z05WtpX5
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDRsNXdXP6
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He knew he wouldn't survive another day in this crystal maze.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBw3dxQhRWb
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJditlz39iZ
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8VhJgLwPC
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Y5bBtUevx
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Progress came through painful effort. Each movement a small victory of will over flesh.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2CJVtXizV
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‘Just keep moving. Don't think. Don't stop.’97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFaiOrK517
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His left palm pressed against something smooth. He blinked, trying to focus through the haze.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFGM0cVDQg
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Y7TC92tJR
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‘When did that happen?’97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEQCZPtlaE
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Cel lifted his head, squinting into the gloom.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqN9baaKyY4
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnO3JHIki2
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTalcCj3ZN
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‘Just how far did that creature carry me?’ The thought arrived slowly, fighting through exhaustion. 97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54Y3uQvW7b
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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—97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGoFZ7O3bj
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A shadow moved between the crystals.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvw3vhOBuR
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Cel froze.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDmWx1rTuT
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The darkness shifted.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPCdz2hXgJ
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrLT5IBWa8E
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjApJzbfkU
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The skull rotated.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQeORcAZO8N
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Violet light locked onto him.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjuKcQBjo8O
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‘Shit.’97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWvYFLQmne
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmd7hLbPoi
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The skeleton took another step. The crystal-encased leg dragged behind, slowing its approach but not stopping it.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8uMTsqtiq
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Another step.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjXv5JhArp
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Cel’s left arm shifted. Then his knee. He dragged himself forward - away from the approaching thing. 97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbSoivwNG2W
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Too slow.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYiugBZITjh
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNFK3w7PJb6
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‘I can't… there's nowhere—’97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbV1gbrBY7
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The world shook.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNLVtJ60GU
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgRymm43m8
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He twisted his head.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5m9jXaUPN
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCxBVxg6pH
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Its light was gone.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xbXyu61jM
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfJ7kGYzgi
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Then the fragments hit the ground.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KOQn7bWhZ
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ZVglEfqPE
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ToeuvMe1z
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Cel didn't wait.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2JIDIu1rn
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIqbNAZHp6U
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His left hand reached forward and found nothing but air.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4a09X1C56G
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‘Huh?’97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe4DCVaofJ2
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYf8wXfFGa
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Behind him, crystal scraped against stone.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPGWYpHQvl
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He twisted his head back.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIox0i41D2b
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NkTWZ1OgF
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8PqgKEiLS
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Ten feet away. Eight. Six.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBVIvSMqBrk
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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—97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1d7IFzeJc3
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It stopped.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qnAitmvzJ
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The crowned skull tilted downward. But not at Cel. Past him.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDumy1V1afo
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Into the chasm.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkeDPQazPzK
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQYMyn9EYh
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Then it stepped over him.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjMeqtUING
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhbacZRjljO
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It jumped.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMT7kAWXHGF
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No hesitation. No pause. Just a simple, decisive leap off the edge and into darkness.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgtyzej5wf
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The skeleton disappeared. Swallowed by the abyss as if it had never existed.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWz21zE4WB
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Silence returned. 97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpXRR6ECtE
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Cel lay motionless at the precipice, too exhausted to process what he'd just witnessed.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizr780FBfI
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‘What... what was that?’97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4abnZMsFn
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His left arm trembled as he dragged himself forward. Just an inch. Enough to peer over the edge.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwmRrNbs0T
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHE0I3gIxCu
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But deep within - far, far below - something else glowed.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ03DtZhVdq
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White light. Not violet.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFS9Mie5VP
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It pulsed gently, steady and alive. The rhythm matched something in his chest, a pull he felt in his bones.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnI6PcF2GyH
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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. 97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJZtrvd64M
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTWnoPo9nt
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4q03792Yp
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But that light…97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbfLjRdpIC
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That light was different.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3tfmn1muBP
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It felt almost like… hope.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3xtamMya0
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