"Shit!" The word tore from Cel's throat as the ground vanished beneath him. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf2W16NT0GU
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For one suspended heartbeat, he hung over the void.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAaA5di0mHV
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Then gravity took him.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXeczFj2Fy
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpKoAS6KMjn
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Cel's legs kicked against empty air, finding nothing.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMxvIln4og
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The maw snapped shut.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJnI5p98Zp
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6BfxuK9KPz
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9PQxTkcQkh
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3vy0Q1iQT
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He drove it in with everything he had.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELEFSm049l
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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. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61Szv8K1nR
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ujI3vORfL
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Then the creature moved.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmoGHinSm6g
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCVFOOefoS
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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. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVSIli8gkA
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Something cracked against his ribs - sharp, sudden, stealing his breath. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡheQfNytNHz
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlsFqfpbuS
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWQAUOPmG5
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Stone cracked against his shoulder. Another caught his hip—105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDHDrOilx5
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His left hand tore free.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBzMPqYbEn
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu02SrRvTnp
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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—105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLFbb6gGkH
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsVvnb5HZWp
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‘Frostmark.’ The thought came like lightning.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7amjqzaFkd
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He didn't hesitate.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBoniqbY8Bk
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Cold exploded through his left palm.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQzNjGazHa
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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. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRouuKjeCiu
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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. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJCP7jhPzYg
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Then something massive struck his skull.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYZo5cSxF6
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White light exploded behind his eyes. The world spun, tilted, shattered.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlGP60SgTk
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His consciousness fled.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxmy8kd3OuB
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Eventually, pain dragged him back.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9JvuMHsPJx
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsLc92xb8W
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeX4jMhQbU
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuV5p0EKEeM
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Panic flared. He tried to flex his fingers.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZrcWDAM7bx
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Nothing.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDBTdzB2If2
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Numb. Dead. Frozen to the hilt.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pn9Uqqlib
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He tried his left hand. His fingers responded, flexing weakly against empty air. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbYtXA1T9zs
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Relief flooded through him. At least one hand still worked.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKo3IJ38N4c
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZm7XALp4r
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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—105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhpDy7pmFn
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Understanding followed a heartbeat later, and with it came something very familiar.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeZpjg7ensM
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Rage.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTz45gk5Da
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'Fucking worm.' 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHOS6IgCvO
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He'd thought himself lucky when the creature passed after devouring the fleeing one. Thought he'd simply gone unnoticed. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNCaP5YZ96
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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. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnGui2SQv9
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Cel's jaw clenched so hard his teeth ached. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszsjCde55K
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHF5z8MrQ0q
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‘Stupid.’105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgGlNeJ5ZZ
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmT8DVi1B4
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdo7UhKDY4m
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnVM7wmXys
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He was alive. The ice hadn't broken.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXepAvcWCf
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEGnMvw2qq
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The irony was bitter. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkzjsbImpc
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2aOSjZoy11
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Iz72EPkjh
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His throat tightened. He didn't know whether to feel grateful or furious.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NAmQLUPM0
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A faint, rhythmic sound vibrated through the flesh around him. The creature's breathing, perhaps. Or its heartbeat. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fubWbJS7q
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He couldn't stay here. Hanging blind in the creature's gullet while frostbite ate through his hand.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZnAOwhbr9
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4kXb6TLh1E
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Cel braced himself, then wrenched Silent Moon free from the flesh.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj0qQs1R1Nm
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The blade tore loose with a wet, sucking sound. His stomach lurched as gravity took him. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsWDQQiIR4
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He dropped through the darkness. Two seconds. Three. Long enough for panic to claw at his chest before— 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9IbZZN83x
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwviDzkC3Kp
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyCQqG99qN
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Cel braced the hilt against the ground and slammed his left fist into the ice encasing his right hand. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4bOXOETFe
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The first blow skidded off at an angle, pain jolting up his wrist. He repositioned, aimed better. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPsEpiZNAg
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The second punch landed square - the frost shattered with a sharp crack, fragments scattering across the floor.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSgTuF9FMpH
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzErJOx7e4Q
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Cel grabbed Silent Moon with his other hand and pushed himself upright, testing his weight carefully. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOimg8aFHN
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He needed to find a way out.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5Jb4EnpIv
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18WJ8SWYvz
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiy3SEMEYfZ
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That left the mouth.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG7X7IiF79M
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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?105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHyRYoNXMT
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His mind turned to Selina. He could enter his soul. Ask for guidance—105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1twM2JCmhU
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No.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qFEc4tTk3
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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.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vELNKXQKh
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So he was trapped. Waiting in a living prison until the creature decided to surface.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmxWljXAyF
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His only chance came when it opened its mouth on its own. To hunt. To breathe. Whatever these things did.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuR4CNIzbvZ
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But the teeth…105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfLtiD6pRc
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Cel's gaze swept across the throat again, and something white gleamed near. He squinted through the dim light.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJIZdpLjlb
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A tooth. As tall as he was, maybe taller. Curved like a scimitar, serrated along its inner edge.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTL8vSZqzwh
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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?105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPnRkHvQP1N
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The odds were worse.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYjJReQdHS
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Unless…105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡweJOvOqb6W
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An idea struck. Cold. Brutal. Utterly insane.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4Wmu8bVs2
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What if the creature had no teeth?105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXGvZqR60I
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A grin spread across his blood-crusted face, wild and malicious in the blade's ghostly light.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmz6mKbyvB
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