"Shit!" The word tore from Cel's throat as the ground vanished beneath him. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHroRTKOKL3
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For one suspended heartbeat, he hung over the void.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8cqfaXbhA
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Then gravity took him.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbeJb9st6A
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Above him, the maw yawned wide - concentric rows of teeth closing toward him like a trap sprung perfectly. The creature had erupted from below, swallowing upward, and he was falling straight into its gullet.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkCCW4Cpeq
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Cel's legs kicked against empty air, finding nothing.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdN4eV0FIAn
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The maw snapped shut.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuEj23S2NFG
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Darkness swallowed the crimson sky. The teeth missed him - barely - their serrated edges scraping past inches from his skin. But the creature had him, trapped in the suffocating confines of its throat.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2CtcSS0d7
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The walls contracted immediately. Heat pressed in from all sides, thick with the stench of decay and something acidic that burned his nostrils.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvw0o0FfgM
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His body still rotated from the momentum of his fall. The inner wall rushed toward him through the blackness. Silent Moon remained in his hand, angled forward by chance rather than design.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpq4m3rf896
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He drove it in with everything he had.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuNPU5jLEp
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The steel met flesh and stuck. Cel drove his weight behind it, feeling layers of tissue resist and tear as the blade sank arm-deep into the wall. Warm blood sprayed across his face, his chest, coating him in black ichor. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYIWgfKwS9o
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The creature didn't react. No shriek. No spasm. The walls continued their steady contraction, indifferent to steel embedded in them. He might as well have pricked it with a needle.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5Mv9nBh56
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Then the creature moved.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMm4m8zyfH
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It plunged downward with violent force, diving into the earth like water. Cel’s body whipped back and forth as the creature twisted and writhed, tearing through rock and packed earth in its descent.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJccjuXZVL
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His grip on Silent Moon's hilt was the only thing keeping him from being dragged deeper into the throat. His arms screamed, shoulders threatening to tear from their sockets as his body swung wild with each thrashing movement. The weapon held firm, anchored in flesh, but his fingers were slipping on blood-slick silk. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVa97rfV4Gz
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Something cracked against his ribs - sharp, sudden, stealing his breath. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr7dhgc8ZVR
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Debris poured through the open maw. Stone fragments, ash, chunks of earth torn free by the creature's passage, all funneling down this living tunnel in a deadly stream.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpcAL4usj7k
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He twisted away, pressing himself against the slick inner wall, trying to predict trajectories he couldn't see. But the blackness turned every impact into surprise, every dodge into desperate guesswork.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJsbuz3cWx
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Stone cracked against his shoulder. Another caught his hip—72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25BH3sphU3
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His left hand tore free.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhI9HF1gqs
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The world lurched as his body swung out into open space, held only by his right hand wrapped around the hilt. The shoulder screamed.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt8Rm6RH8W6
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Panic detonated through him like wildfire. His arm was failing. One more violent twist and he'd lose his grip entirely—72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFzbtJtM5M
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His left hand shot up again, fingers wrapping over his right in a death grip. Both hands locked on the hilt, knuckles white with strain. But it wasn't enough. The blood, the thrashing, the angle - he was still slipping.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4tONheq6bI
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‘Frostmark.’ The thought came like lightning.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBaSSRhTmv
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He didn't hesitate.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9tHWaGlR6
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Cold exploded through his left palm.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnSosl6GkW
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Ice erupted from his left palm, racing over his right hand and sealing it to the hilt in a crystalline death grip. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3VwZ7ztm5
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Frostbite hit instantly - a searing, vicious cold that punched the breath from his lungs. The pain spread up his wrist in waves of agony worse than any blade, any flame. Like winter itself was devouring him from the inside out, eating through muscle and bone alike. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZg9cH37Eo
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Then something massive struck his skull.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksTDPv0IrG
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White light exploded behind his eyes. The world spun, tilted, shattered.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWUrDZ4Cqbw
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His consciousness fled.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxZ7Sx2Obr
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Eventually, pain dragged him back.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7S735bSbJV
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Not the sharp agony of an open wound, but a dull, throbbing ache that pulsed through his skull in time with his heartbeat. Each throb sent fresh waves of nausea through his stomach.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPR1LX9E6d
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Cel's awareness returned in fragments. First the pain. Then the darkness - so complete it might as well have been solid. Then the smell - rot,acid and something else, something organic that made him want to retch.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRUJDKByI6
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His body hung loose, suspended by his right arm stretched overhead. Blood had dried on his face in a crusted mask, pulling tight against his skin with every small movement. His right hand felt... wrong. Not painful. Not cold. Just absent, as if it had been severed at the wrist.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3pTock07S
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Panic flared. He tried to flex his fingers.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzAtXupyYi
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Nothing.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBCLmzThbi
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Numb. Dead. Frozen to the hilt.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bxl0x4du3
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He tried his left hand. His fingers responded, flexing weakly against empty air. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMW4cawhqth
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Relief flooded through him. At least one hand still worked.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69K4A5qezu
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He blinked, but the darkness remained absolute. No crimson sky. No ash-covered wasteland. Just black so complete it pressed against his eyeballs like a physical weight. The air was thick, heavy with moisture that clung to his skin.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2g2X7uKeMv
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Memory crashed back in vivid detail. The collapsing ground. The maw snapping shut. Silent Moon plunged deep into yielding flesh. The creature diving into earth. Debris striking him until—72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryaAE0DzAy
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Understanding followed a heartbeat later, and with it came something very familiar.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAK081ulcw
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Rage.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgGlvqtZBV
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'Fucking worm.' 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1OCcpsltX
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He'd thought himself lucky when the creature passed after devouring the fleeing one. Thought he'd simply gone unnoticed. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdIVH8xsJs
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But this thing had seen him perfectly. It had simply been patient. Watching. Waiting. Playing dead while he stood there distracted by its first kill, lowering his guard, thinking himself safe. Then it had struck with perfect precision. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ40rCHHtW6C
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Cel's jaw clenched so hard his teeth ached. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vzrOEOgC0
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He'd been deceived. Made to believe the rules were different than they were. That he was somehow invisible to these creatures. And he'd believed it - because he'd wanted to believe it. Because it would have made survival so much easier.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxE4NS5CWI
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‘Stupid.’72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD2q9S8K6G7
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The fury settled in his chest like hot coals, steady and sustaining. Good. He'd need that anger. Need it to get through what came next.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpWWpTVAzt
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The creature had stopped moving now - settled deep beneath the earth, probably digesting its first meal while waiting for its second to die in its gut.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLbxOIPWiE
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Cel hung there in the suffocating darkness, trying to orient himself. His body dangled loose, arms stretched toward what he assumed was up. Gravity pulled at his legs, his torso, everything pointing down into the black.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllDKap3bdS
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He was alive. The ice hadn't broken.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8roT2lQHU
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Frostmark had saved him. The fragile frost that shattered from a single punch had actually held where his strength would have failed. It had kept him anchored while debris battered his skull unconscious, kept him from sliding into the digestive acids waiting below.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXRI9C1gtQ4
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The irony was bitter. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6I0AXy8Gxa
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Not even Unbroken Succession would have saved him here. That divine gift required moonlight to reach his corpse during a full moon. But buried in the gullet of a creature deep beneath the earth? The moon's light would never be able to touch his remains.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCg7FhVrVft
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The disappointing, pathetic authority he'd written off as a joke had been the only thing standing between him and permanent death.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0e6qKum5ml
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His throat tightened. He didn't know whether to feel grateful or furious.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW89G8WbKos
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A faint, rhythmic sound vibrated through the flesh around him. The creature's breathing, perhaps. Or its heartbeat. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0NCMRPZbY
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He couldn't stay here. Hanging blind in the creature's gullet while frostbite ate through his hand.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsCxXqn5G0
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The way his body hung - arms overhead, legs pointing down - meant the creature had to be horizontal, stretched out like a snake at rest. Which meant he wasn't dangling over a void. There was ground below. Somewhere.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKVbnCCCmo
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Cel braced himself, then wrenched Silent Moon free from the flesh.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡggWhXN1pP1
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The blade tore loose with a wet, sucking sound. His stomach lurched as gravity took him. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDtBI68pl7
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He dropped through the darkness. Two seconds. Three. Long enough for panic to claw at his chest before— 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjkMR1d4Z1
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His body slammed into yielding flesh with a wet thud that drove the air from his lungs. Not ground. Not stone. The soft, slick floor of the creature's throat cushioned his fall.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhzKIxQgSiM
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Cel lay there gasping, his frozen hand still locked around Silent Moon's hilt. The blade lay across his chest, free of the wall but bound to him by ice. Four crescent phases glowed along its length, piercing the darkness with soft white radiance. The glow painted his immediate surroundings in ghostly relief - ribbed walls glistening with mucus, organic ridges pulsing with the creature's rhythm.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGlGGQ3xoy
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Cel braced the hilt against the ground and slammed his left fist into the ice encasing his right hand. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUyPruG3n4Q
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The first blow skidded off at an angle, pain jolting up his wrist. He repositioned, aimed better. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVp7DQfjwN
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The second punch landed square - the frost shattered with a sharp crack, fragments scattering across the floor.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCpC4ooE4h
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Yet his right hand remained numb. Dead weight at the end of his wrist. He tried to flex his fingers - nothing. The frostbite had gone too deep.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdLc7yZQBV
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Cel grabbed Silent Moon with his other hand and pushed himself upright, testing his weight carefully. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjsqJlRPYc
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He needed to find a way out.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGLoFDsXXt
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Going deeper would accomplish nothing. The creature's digestive system waited that way. Even if the acid didn't kill him, he'd simply be trapped in an even worse position.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoL7GVrtAOw
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Carving his way through the flesh was impossible. Those obsidian-hard plates he'd glimpsed covered the creature's exterior - armor that had probably turned aside a thousand claws and fangs. He doubted Silent Moon could pierce them.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJrVswKxQg
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That left the mouth.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5WyrPDcrd
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But the maw had snapped shut when it swallowed him. He'd felt it close like a trap, and he couldn't possibly force it open. And even if he managed that miracle, how far down had the creature dived? How much earth lay between him and the surface?72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxmv0WNuF6
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His mind turned to Selina. He could enter his soul. Ask for guidance—72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14rEuLwBxU
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If the creature moved again - and it would, eventually - he needed to be conscious. Needed to be ready to drive Silent Moon deep and hold on for another violent ride through stone and earth. Entering his soul now was suicide.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz0p2BYJOzu
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So he was trapped. Waiting in a living prison until the creature decided to surface.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkbz3DhqAy
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His only chance came when it opened its mouth on its own. To hunt. To breathe. Whatever these things did.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHpBgflOCM
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But the teeth…72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiOdlGu0P9L
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Cel's gaze swept across the throat again, and something white gleamed near. He squinted through the dim light.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehoLjwBwEk
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A tooth. As tall as he was, maybe taller. Curved like a scimitar, serrated along its inner edge.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpe4D0pRFg3
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His stomach clenched. Getting past those teeth had been luck. Pure, stupid luck when the maw had snapped shut and missed him by inches. Trying to slip through them consciously, while the creature was active and aware?72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OVShIKJN4
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The odds were worse.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHpLRUWrwu
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Unless…72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJmdNHVboj6
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An idea struck. Cold. Brutal. Utterly insane.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWw5cNnyBrj
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What if the creature had no teeth?72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpBxxg5lOP
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A grin spread across his blood-crusted face, wild and malicious in the blade's ghostly light.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5RfCUWC9m
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