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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgDYA6N5MSq
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He began walking the perimeter of the throat, mapping what he was truly dealing with.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxblHJRXTBK
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His breath caught.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAN1YC3qbj
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Teeth. Dozens of them in the first ring alone. Perhaps hundreds total.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5f5nPnTuC
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGrZWctxQC
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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?97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KuMO3lrtC
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJltWhsLCk
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41g7EFdqsy
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The enormity of the task settled over him like a weight.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuWQox8FgU
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"Let's get started then." His voice sounded strange in the close space - flat, swallowed by organic walls.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkSV00apQp
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGTgqBdDy4
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydUC7zAg7S
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmWzSjJiPEm
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But his right hand dangled uselessly at his side. Dead weight. The frostbite had taken it completely.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwF04htoRDt
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He'd have to do this one-handed.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWuOqxcEcQ
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The blade's tip found purchase against yielding flesh. Cel drove it in.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdwyd1lM9Qo
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4FQqcPgIR
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Cel jerked back, startled. He'd meant to probe carefully, to work the blade in gradually.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDsONuvu8H2
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Instead, he'd just buried it to the hilt in a single motion.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuORc71g1U
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'Too much strength again.'97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKyLnwyIU8
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQIMGNNcK8
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He wrenched Silent Moon free and repositioned. Then drove it in from a different angle.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkzPwoNAZ3
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9UletaXci
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fGs65edU8
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Good. Let it stay ignorant.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZkvGvtdum
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWam1fcHjz
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The work was going faster than he'd expected. Much faster.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmL0ExSaZxx
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After perhaps twenty thrusts - maybe thirty - the tooth shifted.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKmmg4YqBJd
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Not slightly. Not a gentle loosening.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAd1087WvL8
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It lurched in its socket, suddenly free on one side, listing like a tree about to fall.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZ2ymUCk9e
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Cel gripped the tooth's base where it jutted from the socket and pulled.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM79ID8Jiym
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Nothing. The tooth held fast, still anchored on one side.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZgqOxdAz1
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBCS7426Iw
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Cel snarled and pulled harder.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9FInQ2iz2
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDtN4PHTBs
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The fang hit the floor with a meaty thud.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPHacoCbPh
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One tooth done.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJybnT3DL4
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He stared at it for a moment, then looked up at the rows still remaining.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRKzhjXcPbS
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'That wasn't so bad.' 97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gkFH1mEqU
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkcXCZRSR7
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfZqcrx0lb
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This was doable.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDiHjwaeC7R
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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. 97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbuVLDYHHx
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He needed water. 97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG11cv7t9TS
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But there was no water here. Just blood, bile and—97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOpJfwWkPp
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His gaze dropped to the shattered frost fragments scattered across the floor. The ice that had saved his life earlier.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQLXMcvt0J
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'Frostmark creates ice.' The thought arrived slowly, fighting through dehydration's fog.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpj90iwnD3
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And ice was frozen water.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOscSEFleH
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Cel pressed his left palm against the organic floor.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKYSy0rrCeE
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwU7nOHghFV
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He pulled his hand away, fingers aching from the cold, and stared at what he'd created.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0e9Dcej0p
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Frost. Beautiful and intricate.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwD7Is4ql5
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Edible?97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTF5WJXMuF
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His stomach churned at the thought. But what choice did he have?97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLlZanA4ND
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBy4zqlCNtB
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He brought it to his mouth. Hesitated.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlw5IS4cL15
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Then bit down.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALpgXgjyeL
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rglZ79AL3
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But it broke.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6x6cv1ivL
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡidVL5VI1Zx
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He chewed carefully, feeling the fragments crack and crunch. Then swallowed.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGikbHAPPv
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeoYwM7Hig
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Cel stared at the remaining frost on the floor, then at his left hand.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXen5xKpbKc
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'It works.'97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRU06fRiUn
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xWWS7xNHv
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9LcdIQGHw
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His throat tightened with something that might have been shame.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtnrR5Oy3YR
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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."97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRWjKts3nr
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The words felt inadequate. Hollow. But they were all he had.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9rtbomebm
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHm6jj67MQk
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When he finished, he stood, testing his legs. Steadier now. The frost had restored something vital.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFDlHgUZ7E0
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But his stomach twisted with a different kind of emptiness. Hunger. Sharp and demanding.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqXSaFIDoB
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His gaze drifted across the organic floor. The ribbed walls. The pulsing tissue that surrounded him.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBI7vpmLM1p
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All of it was flesh. Meat. Raw, certainly. Probably disgusting.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBPH0vAxhi
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But edible.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXwKRwUqUVt
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUGsjn8U7R
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4eKZw35vYZ
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Compared to that?97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeClmbIjGEv
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Fresh meat was practically a delicacy.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUmL7sNxoo
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6MjGHLnmnW
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His stomach turned. Not from the sight - he'd seen worse. But from what he was about to do.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NAJkBrWLl
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He put it in his mouth.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIeL8PmyOuc
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Nothing. No taste at all. Just texture - soft, yielding, oddly smooth.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZcmzwQutV
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWHVBm0QRC
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrAyWEyPdQ
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Cel clenched his jaw, breathing hard through his nose. Forced his throat to relax. Swallowed.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8Q0xLlOih
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The meat went down.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtgtjwdbt7
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdrkFHoq61
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pn2TMMQeF
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He stood there gasping, bent forward. Waiting. Watching for the inevitable rejection.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6KqqLl8G0i
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But it didn't come.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7shzfJeVO
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWuZVYyISp
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOk7ARCFtmX
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A third bite. Fourth. Fifth.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdRBjYmLpc
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0opmoZh3FY
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjk74VxNlAN
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSuyQELILSk
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"Right then." His voice was steadier now. Stronger. "Back to work."97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9g6voB2SB
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He approached the second tooth, blade in hand.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cDYm0fJqS
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Cel positioned Silent Moon at the tooth's base and drove it in deep.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zxgNm9xOQ
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLYXnqqepe
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It went faster than the first tooth. His movements fell into rhythm - drive, wrench, reposition.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTMnyOGue8
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The second tooth crashed to the floor. Then the third.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7eeOt50s2
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOK9wdDzjLc
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He glanced at Silent Moon between strikes.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuEudiZL6K0
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Six crescents glowed along its length now. Two more than before.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1LXaZkY6ip
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVfHpnHIWk
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So the trait reacted with sharpness. The more crescents ignited, the keener the edge became.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1VxUbmCTA
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqU14QGpbNZ
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The gap in the outer rings grew visible. Real progress.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3cOteJKbQ
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Time became meaningless in the darkness.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcrYWGgjXBT
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Tenth. Fifteenth. Twentieth.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhF3j8cjxs2
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4K1y66KWn7
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How long had he been working? Hours? Days?97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrLByaxXwL
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The gap was clear now - wide enough to slip through if the creature opened its mouth.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZRLZfIIR5I
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But dozens more teeth remained.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3asy9TFYg
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He turned toward the twenty-first tooth.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHMz5zeKbgH
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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.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbViRb7dWjq
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A year ago, half this work would have killed him.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvfhXpcVMr
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Now? He could keep going.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi27fnwmI6r
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Gratitude flickered through his chest - brief but genuine. This body - this gift - would not break easily.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DTaCALa4Q
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He raised Silent Moon. Six crescents burned steadily along its length.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpx4NJgmCK
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He positioned the blade and drove it in.97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbip2hsAgKJ
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Steel punched through flesh. He wrenched it free, repositioned—97Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh7wUz4GPkW
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