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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5WiRVeA9g9
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He began walking the perimeter of the throat, mapping what he was truly dealing with.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLEeUVxH7l
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His breath caught.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK8mzVOdpXg
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Teeth. Dozens of them in the first ring alone. Perhaps hundreds total.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6c8Ud7vQR
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZcrxhpglug
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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?67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYAS61Hke1
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MyWg4GMhl
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNcxEKpwjT
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The enormity of the task settled over him like a weight.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0x3GmvkQTL
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"Let's get started then." His voice sounded strange in the close space - flat, swallowed by organic walls.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKGarFZ9Wl
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuznaN2DzX5
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtfoJ542do
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDCVfUhTFK
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But his right hand dangled uselessly at his side. Dead weight. The frostbite had taken it completely.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWidqngcYDj
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He'd have to do this one-handed.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe84m9W6mIW
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The blade's tip found purchase against yielding flesh. Cel drove it in.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7Ie2Bz5fW
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmHHgjsiEH
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Cel jerked back, startled. He'd meant to probe carefully, to work the blade in gradually.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3WAv8XAYA
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Instead, he'd just buried it to the hilt in a single motion.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyqCy0HJ97
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'Too much strength again.'67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3WFrz3UXqM
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFCnP8qf6u
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He wrenched Silent Moon free and repositioned. Then drove it in from a different angle.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1c4nKVw1Q
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIDobsbjfZ
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOb6HLHVYXJ
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Good. Let it stay ignorant.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcoqqvO5Qsk
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCLThaMjLk
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The work was going faster than he'd expected. Much faster.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmI0UJsbCGm
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After perhaps twenty thrusts - maybe thirty - the tooth shifted.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKsmtH8yOx
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Not slightly. Not a gentle loosening.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTCsSTzNtN
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It lurched in its socket, suddenly free on one side, listing like a tree about to fall.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yjI1ko3yE
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Cel gripped the tooth's base where it jutted from the socket and pulled.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXf1B5YrHX8
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Nothing. The tooth held fast, still anchored on one side.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8V4c5QCTs
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFsXqgiqfy
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Cel snarled and pulled harder.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAZ2yFgLaR
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfU1ufqwUK
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The fang hit the floor with a meaty thud.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjYw7IWRpa
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One tooth done.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8WBun5jul
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He stared at it for a moment, then looked up at the rows still remaining.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7BCSVlzFO
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'That wasn't so bad.' 67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSRdLj5vek
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRiRgUtfKtv
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBAXJiunKwd
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This was doable.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyhdYs95et
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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. 67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1X9EHXt4hU
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He needed water. 67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrYPI7nBN9B
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But there was no water here. Just blood, bile and—67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyAC6bf7xE
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His gaze dropped to the shattered frost fragments scattered across the floor. The ice that had saved his life earlier.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ907i9mYXed
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'Frostmark creates ice.' The thought arrived slowly, fighting through dehydration's fog.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZRi43hqmBP
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And ice was frozen water.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8cwrcyPDc
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Cel pressed his left palm against the organic floor.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡte8kyHUNbX
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34sgtfGws5
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He pulled his hand away, fingers aching from the cold, and stared at what he'd created.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGzrprnJbt
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Frost. Beautiful and intricate.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPa16Tl5ji
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Edible?67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5jsUUnE1S
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His stomach churned at the thought. But what choice did he have?67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTd4JpuUrsf
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwFaKoRT0b
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He brought it to his mouth. Hesitated.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MDnHt62Uh
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Then bit down.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHC3c3iaxv9
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFqrNuM89IK
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But it broke.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB3brUke0Hb
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTPZxGTTvm
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He chewed carefully, feeling the fragments crack and crunch. Then swallowed.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbYRpI7EeI
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAqt68l1SN
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Cel stared at the remaining frost on the floor, then at his left hand.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHxja8Zkli
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'It works.'67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFR3ZlDLup
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTAYYjbATd
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWstMmx1a2v
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His throat tightened with something that might have been shame.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6SiFGoTCZ
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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."67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfdE1uPaZZS
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The words felt inadequate. Hollow. But they were all he had.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTomTZhBfvE
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkm5HLMYwb
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When he finished, he stood, testing his legs. Steadier now. The frost had restored something vital.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCoiR2TPj9b
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But his stomach twisted with a different kind of emptiness. Hunger. Sharp and demanding.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHYuYCeu41s
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His gaze drifted across the organic floor. The ribbed walls. The pulsing tissue that surrounded him.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhgQ4sZwoeJ
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All of it was flesh. Meat. Raw, certainly. Probably disgusting.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1nV9KldBsz
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But edible.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfMc428rDf
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5DKhw5cMU
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4Z7ziPAQz
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Compared to that?67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmmj84BVAQt
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Fresh meat was practically a delicacy.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfaPKbVwTXi
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWxuoQ3JqN
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His stomach turned. Not from the sight - he'd seen worse. But from what he was about to do.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjDX6uq4lU
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He put it in his mouth.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRRi0EYMM7Z
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Nothing. No taste at all. Just texture - soft, yielding, oddly smooth.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxM8jTD0oj
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGr6YB0FoFp
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGt0zBz9km
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Cel clenched his jaw, breathing hard through his nose. Forced his throat to relax. Swallowed.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknZdyUMY7q
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The meat went down.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcV6YbWKDwi
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡee2chlRIoT
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsY1KkHNcc
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He stood there gasping, bent forward. Waiting. Watching for the inevitable rejection.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5a9agdzUU
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But it didn't come.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6j8p4sEQTO
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUomwBnN21
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaytRvELdtV
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A third bite. Fourth. Fifth.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2muF0p6fhv
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxVI1dHEgOF
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwt0CaGenrH
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61UFNNpo2z
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"Right then." His voice was steadier now. Stronger. "Back to work."67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qcKmzQIWy
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He approached the second tooth, blade in hand.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNwQkXilGcC
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Cel positioned Silent Moon at the tooth's base and drove it in deep.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPf8JwkaUSH
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHoiek1LUu
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It went faster than the first tooth. His movements fell into rhythm - drive, wrench, reposition.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJwNKv15MK
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The second tooth crashed to the floor. Then the third.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByzJJM2kQs
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztpdy4qSou
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He glanced at Silent Moon between strikes.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhbun3FKjj
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Six crescents glowed along its length now. Two more than before.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZbhMkTPgn
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtndK2Fobq
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'Empathic Steel.'67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MTiJMI4DU
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So the trait reacted with sharpness. The more crescents ignited, the keener the edge became.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRN3QZUf5NL
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXhzME308HO
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The gap in the outer rings grew visible. Real progress.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMk9ua97joc
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Time became meaningless in the darkness.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfVKpfoafw
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Tenth. Fifteenth. Twentieth.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzF53cgv4Lb
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQmmLAevOh
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How long had he been working? Hours? Days?67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGLGCJKiL1
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The gap was clear now - wide enough to slip through if the creature opened its mouth.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE6TlK9EAtN
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But dozens more teeth remained.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IHQKmVjt6
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He turned toward the twenty-first tooth.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5HWH4AXa7U
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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.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKnZck2P1xI
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A year ago, half this work would have killed him.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGAMvcZWqg
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Now? He could keep going.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpnplmzPxY
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Gratitude flickered through his chest - brief but genuine. This body - this gift - would not break easily.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBoENPHqtC
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He raised Silent Moon. Six crescents burned steadily along its length.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4ZmeXokFL
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He positioned the blade and drove it in.67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4t2vytYmCD
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Steel punched through flesh. He wrenched it free, repositioned—67Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbSFmqVlN3g
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A tremor ran through the creature's body.1234 copyright protection63ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8sCz0EZYR 尼

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