Cel stood and lifted Silent Moon higher, letting its pale radiance push back the darkness. The blade's four glowing crescents cast enough light to see perhaps ten steps in any direction.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Cdd9RDDYp
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He began walking the perimeter of the throat, mapping what he was truly dealing with.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3CaXRJTDNy
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His breath caught.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJRYw2MmyX
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Teeth. Dozens of them in the first ring alone. Perhaps hundreds total.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7E4TyyVgW5
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They ringed the maw's entrance in concentric rows that stretched back into shadow, each tooth a curved blade of bone as tall as he stood.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEqzmQrPiL
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Slipping through them by chance as he fell was one thing. Forcing his way through deliberately while the creature was awake and aware?168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL22AY7oyG8
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Cel's jaw tightened as he studied the formation. The outer ring was densest - teeth packed so close together a child couldn't squeeze between them. But further in, toward where he stood, the spacing grew wider. The creature's throat, it seemed, was less concerned about things trying to escape from within.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0WAwcpmfh
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His gaze tracked from tooth to tooth, counting. Estimating. Each one would need to be loosened from its socket, carved free from the flesh that held it. One by one. With a single working hand.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmutz1MvFX
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The enormity of the task settled over him like a weight.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFlc12pLj8U
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"Let's get started then." His voice sounded strange in the close space - flat, swallowed by organic walls.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqyyA3miy2
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He approached the nearest tooth, running his left hand along its smooth outer curve. Almost polished. The serrations on the inner edge looked sharp enough to shred flesh.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGeFBvLEyf
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The tooth curved inward, its base disappearing into a socket of yielding flesh. That's where he'd need to cut. Sever the connections. Loosen it enough to pull free.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypeR9dpFmm
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Cel adjusted his grip on Silent Moon's hilt, positioning the blade's point near the gumline. A chokutō was built for thrusting - straight, single-edged, perfect for driving deep into flesh. If he had both hands, this would be simple. Quick, even.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJrP4qy9L4
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But his right hand dangled uselessly at his side. Dead weight. The frostbite had taken it completely.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMtROAf8Hxu
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He'd have to do this one-handed.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtqfV2TTdw
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The blade's tip found purchase against yielding flesh. Cel drove it in.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPPAQLzc04
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Steel met resistance - flesh and muscle pushing back - yet his uncontrolled strength forced the blade deeper than intended. Silent Moon's entire length disappeared into the socket before he could stop himself, his hand slamming into the base where tooth met flesh. Blood exploded outward, spraying across his chest in a hot wave.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS5aKLYzWXr
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Cel jerked back, startled. He'd meant to probe carefully, to work the blade in gradually.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJs5jjVhcyd
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Instead, he'd just buried it to the hilt in a single motion.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbJmsZovOh
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'Too much strength again.'168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBxYzN72XB
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But unlike the practice swings where control mattered, where balance determined everything - here, raw power was exactly what he needed. There was no finesse required. No technique. Just destruction.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEykoRxKloN
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He wrenched Silent Moon free and repositioned. Then drove it in from a different angle.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrn1sL7o9yO
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The blade punched through meat and scraped against bone with a grinding sound that made his teeth ache. He twisted the hilt, using the leverage to carve away the connective tissue. Blood poured from the wound in thick streams.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFap7HvFngr
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The creature didn't react. No spasm. No sound. Just the steady rhythm of its breathing continuing unchanged, as if he were nothing more than an irritating insect.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEG6WSLtbQJ
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Good. Let it stay ignorant.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIu7dP3LAto
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Cel worked methodically now, driving Silent Moon in from different angles around the tooth's base. Each thrust went deep - deeper than he intended, deeper than he could control. But it didn't matter. Every wild, uncontrolled strike tore away more of the socket's hold.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTSJJFtLFz
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The work was going faster than he'd expected. Much faster.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCzdFGqhD5d
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After perhaps twenty thrusts - maybe thirty - the tooth shifted.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKuwADVfsBR
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Not slightly. Not a gentle loosening.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7878T4GJ9w
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It lurched in its socket, suddenly free on one side, listing like a tree about to fall.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ01rHFJlH49
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Cel gripped the tooth's base where it jutted from the socket and pulled.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡetvQNbOsei
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Nothing. The tooth held fast, still anchored on one side.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtvYcsUptE
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He braced his feet against the slick floor and threw his weight backward. Muscles strained. The tooth resisted, grinding against bone and tissue that refused to release.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRsBDuyjhP
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Cel snarled and pulled harder.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbEuqYVNlv
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The socket tore free with a wet, ripping sound flesh giving way all at once. The sudden release sent him stumbling backward as the tooth's weight shifted.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjEtdwapHT
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The fang hit the floor with a meaty thud.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMgoYccJPU
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One tooth done.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9okBivE5eg
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He stared at it for a moment, then looked up at the rows still remaining.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvGGVXFmEm
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'That wasn't so bad.' 168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUpwY215SP
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The realization settled over him slowly. Yes, there were dozens more. Maybe hundreds. And yes, he only had one working hand.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkpWAGj0cQ
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But he was strong now. Far stronger than he'd ever been. Strong enough that raw power could substitute for skill, for precision, for everything he lacked.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZ6uaEYCGL
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This was doable.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Pa1EErovy
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His throat worked in a dry swallow, pulling him back to immediate concerns. When had he last had water? Not since his resurrection. Time blurred together, but his body knew - knew from the way his tongue felt thick and papery, from the way even swallowing hurt. 168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNcGrnwN5v
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He needed water. 168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHSbLdoC5VR
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But there was no water here. Just blood, bile and—168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIuXGRgmxmF
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His gaze dropped to the shattered frost fragments scattered across the floor. The ice that had saved his life earlier.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuC9uK6wWCU
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'Frostmark creates ice.' The thought arrived slowly, fighting through dehydration's fog.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUr8qayE7G1
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And ice was frozen water.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjzGQw6Brvt
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Cel pressed his left palm against the organic floor.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6AXR7GOhSR
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Cold erupted beneath his hand. The familiar burning sensation - vicious and sharp - raced up his arm as frost spiraled outward in delicate patterns. The tissue beneath crystallized instantly, forming a perfect circle of ice.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhhfpxGcMYX
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He pulled his hand away, fingers aching from the cold, and stared at what he'd created.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYs9g1fBKl6
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Frost. Beautiful and intricate.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQruUtmKs9
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Edible?168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ENdtSibbk
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His stomach churned at the thought. But what choice did he have?168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwCnkmFzrO
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Cel reached down and broke off a chunk of the frost. It came away with a sharp crack, the fragment glittering pale blue in Silent Moon's light.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuIwPJULz6
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He brought it to his mouth. Hesitated.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXif4qIUBZ
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Then bit down.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc5o5I2MAL3
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The sound was obscenely loud - a crunching crack that echoed off the ribbed walls. Like biting into thick glass. The ice was hard, dense, requiring real force to break between his teeth.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGnhg7fWrf
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But it broke.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxars9Fnms
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Cold flooded his mouth - sharp and immediate, spreading across his tongue without melting. He chewed carefully, breaking the fragments down smaller and smaller. The ice didn't dissolve like normal frost would. He had to grind it between his teeth until the pieces were small enough to swallow safely.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgV7RPxbLfC
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He chewed carefully, feeling the fragments crack and crunch. Then swallowed.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlWrBb1wWS
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The cold traced a path down his throat, settling in his stomach with surprising weight. Not water exactly. But close enough. Real enough.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6p00Yi7bX
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Cel stared at the remaining frost on the floor, then at his left hand.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCIikt7Uki
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'It works.'168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtCCDJBuPY
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Relief crashed through him so intensely his vision blurred. He could make water. Whenever he needed it. However much he needed.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgL7t8D5Wn0
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The authority he'd dismissed as useless had now saved his life twice. First by anchoring him during the creature's violent descent. Now by providing the one thing that separated survival from death by dehydration.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzchvV7pS4G
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His throat tightened with something that might have been shame.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCu1hyevGUL
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"I'm sorry," he whispered to the darkness. To the moon he couldn't see. To the goddess who'd granted him power he'd been too blind to appreciate. "I'm sorry I underestimated your gift."168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNraS5A0XtK
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The words felt inadequate. Hollow. But they were all he had.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEzEsIyjq7
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Cel ate more frost, methodically breaking off chunks and crunching them down until his mouth no longer felt like sandpaper. Until swallowing didn't hurt.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTtHXdu1Jr
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When he finished, he stood, testing his legs. Steadier now. The frost had restored something vital.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHrXyzL8eyS
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But his stomach twisted with a different kind of emptiness. Hunger. Sharp and demanding.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgM1J3aew7
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His gaze drifted across the organic floor. The ribbed walls. The pulsing tissue that surrounded him.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0xzScVGEQ
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All of it was flesh. Meat. Raw, certainly. Probably disgusting.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡym448Bo2zv
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But edible.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3OsxxQnVG
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The thought arrived with crystalline clarity, and with it came a hysterical laugh that bubbled up from somewhere dark and twisted in his chest.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9JVEduUQv
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He'd spent a year eating rotting meat crawling with maggots. Meat so far gone it barely qualified as organic matter anymore. He'd choked it down, vomited it back up, forced it down again until his body learned to accept poison as sustenance.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzW7MpR6GbE
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Compared to that?168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡesksomgWp1
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Fresh meat was practically a delicacy.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZGF8xnkqm
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Cel carved a thin strip from the wall near the tooth's empty socket. The meat came away easily under Silent Moon's edge, warm and slick. He held it up in the blade's pale light, watching it glisten.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe661oq1hiG
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His stomach turned. Not from the sight - he'd seen worse. But from what he was about to do.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUGO4LyP9b
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He put it in his mouth.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYg86H1PSf
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Nothing. No taste at all. Just texture - soft, yielding, oddly smooth.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0tn9DhNe4U
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He chewed. The flesh gave way between his teeth - easier than the frost fragments, but still requiring effort to break down. Warm. Wet. The consistency of... nothing he could compare to. Nothing he'd ever eaten willingly.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1ujcpWXWF
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His throat convulsed. The gag reflex hit hard, muscles spasming as his body tried to reject what he was forcing into it.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMBwMAcf2B
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Cel clenched his jaw, breathing hard through his nose. Forced his throat to relax. Swallowed.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2s0gvurfG
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The meat went down.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDlLLMKgrg2
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His stomach lurched. Rebelled. For a heartbeat he was certain it would come back up, that he'd vomit everything onto the floor and waste the effort.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MF7B4ypJU
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But his body remembered. Remembered a year of training, of learning to accept the unacceptable. The nausea peaked, held... then slowly receded.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalBhUIbFdD
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He stood there gasping, bent forward. Waiting. Watching for the inevitable rejection.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0FRCxOWGv
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But it didn't come.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfNnTgbPU4w
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Cel stared at the walls surrounding him. An entire creature's worth of food. Enough to sustain him for weeks if he could stomach it.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaREIvLLMZ
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He carved another strip from the wall and took a bite. Chewed. Swallowed. Gagged again - less violently this time - but kept it down.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIAvI9ayX4
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A third bite. Fourth. Fifth.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkO0ndMg1iI
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By the tenth, the gagging had nearly stopped. His body was adapting, accepting this new reality the way it had accepted every other horror he'd forced upon it.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBnLhTeBXEQ
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When he finished the strip, Cel cut another. Then another. He ate methodically, without pleasure or disgust. Just the mechanical process of fuel entering his body.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaphffcLf7D
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Finally, when his stomach felt uncomfortably full, he stopped. Wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmn22Qda16
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"Right then." His voice was steadier now. Stronger. "Back to work."168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iFchekKRa
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He approached the second tooth, blade in hand.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaroi7bP999
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Cel positioned Silent Moon at the tooth's base and drove it in deep.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡddQOOXgcle
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The blade punched through flesh and scraped bone. He wrenched it free and drove it in again from a different angle, carving away the connective tissue.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡddB6lvdjUR
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It went faster than the first tooth. His movements fell into rhythm - drive, wrench, reposition.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxypam9Tdwg
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The second tooth crashed to the floor. Then the third.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf75dir9cXz
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By the fourth tooth, something had shifted. His mind had narrowed to this single task - nothing else existed except the tooth before him and the blade in his hand.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJT50Bvf6d
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He glanced at Silent Moon between strikes.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3tWSYt0te
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Six crescents glowed along its length now. Two more than before.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQuk5mC7GjQ
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The blade felt different. When he drove it into the fifth tooth's socket, the steel slid through tissue like it wasn't there. What had met resistance before now carved freely. Silent Moon had grown sharper.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2wx1TfCpm
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'Empathic Steel.'168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NoaZnY249
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So the trait reacted with sharpness. The more crescents ignited, the keener the edge became.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21A7Tnz50N
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Each tooth fell faster than the last. His strikes remained wild and uncontrolled, but the blade carved through flesh as if it weren't there.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhVk8TONvY
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The gap in the outer rings grew visible. Real progress.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOBy4eN3XY
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Time became meaningless in the darkness.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkPLLIvLm9
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Tenth. Fifteenth. Twentieth.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI9Oc9JgUn3
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His left hand bled where the hilt's friction had worn through skin. His right remained dead weight. Sweat and blood coated him. But he kept moving.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRpKlv3mvN
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How long had he been working? Hours? Days?168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYUteMtNVT
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The gap was clear now - wide enough to slip through if the creature opened its mouth.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyCP7oP0fSi
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But dozens more teeth remained.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGWiLWUIRi
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He turned toward the twenty-first tooth.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDEs1c0QJCM
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Exhaustion pressed down on him - heavy and insistent. His left hand throbbed where the skin had worn away. His arm ached from endless repetition. But beneath it all, his body remained vital. Strong. The divine resurrection had rebuilt him into something that could endure this.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6aqjk8fPm3
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A year ago, half this work would have killed him.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4nyGcenmfR
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Now? He could keep going.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv1Vg1Jtm09
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Gratitude flickered through his chest - brief but genuine. This body - this gift - would not break easily.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDEXCZpPvWG
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He raised Silent Moon. Six crescents burned steadily along its length.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJtw6MXMfG
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He positioned the blade and drove it in.168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfxtlYPe3Cn
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Steel punched through flesh. He wrenched it free, repositioned—168Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIKXpXbR0z
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A tremor ran through the creature's body.1234 copyright protection164ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dcgt0UaVk 尼

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