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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcDXVmX4ZNM
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He began walking the perimeter of the throat, mapping what he was truly dealing with.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4Qeh4rHLV
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His breath caught.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3B8YI7Nvi
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Teeth. Dozens of them in the first ring alone. Perhaps hundreds total.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrG6UzpTLWn
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4cc0hvXj3
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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?258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWCbP69vAt
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNFgpE8WR4
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZ8YiXhHku
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The enormity of the task settled over him like a weight.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDitCZBLIL
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"Let's get started then." His voice sounded strange in the close space - flat, swallowed by organic walls.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtoR0FvLkk6
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFGwbMYZxo
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5FjN3k3rf
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSfA9NEaRV
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But his right hand dangled uselessly at his side. Dead weight. The frostbite had taken it completely.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfY9syJj75j
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He'd have to do this one-handed.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLiVYwx2Ha
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The blade's tip found purchase against yielding flesh. Cel drove it in.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtiWd6zPl2
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoTl7Sycbi
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Cel jerked back, startled. He'd meant to probe carefully, to work the blade in gradually.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxITBr6l9t
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Instead, he'd just buried it to the hilt in a single motion.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡozgo2isifw
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'Too much strength again.'258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY07dfLlKr3
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT68zLEd9ks
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He wrenched Silent Moon free and repositioned. Then drove it in from a different angle.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYvyBDclsT
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhOcDoTU3N
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVzEIhYjtF
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Good. Let it stay ignorant.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOrltgri5L
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtd2FP4PVuW
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The work was going faster than he'd expected. Much faster.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPeLIH0Y9Z
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After perhaps twenty thrusts - maybe thirty - the tooth shifted.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3h3CGifm7V
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Not slightly. Not a gentle loosening.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfnZc5xrF1
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It lurched in its socket, suddenly free on one side, listing like a tree about to fall.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxROgVfdLKR
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Cel gripped the tooth's base where it jutted from the socket and pulled.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZ1axv7Fle
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Nothing. The tooth held fast, still anchored on one side.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpeqaM2GtGh
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0Rnf9ctn4
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Cel snarled and pulled harder.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VlF8Zdlhs
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFpS7ja2ZH
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The fang hit the floor with a meaty thud.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzGDigMGJm
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One tooth done.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wvsgcWFGW
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He stared at it for a moment, then looked up at the rows still remaining.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSVF5QmkkC
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'That wasn't so bad.' 258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPmLsOYZCn
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIvp5FhXpm
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRImCeNxHlX
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This was doable.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdlBFvOI40
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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. 258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWKfTDvrL1y
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He needed water. 258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfvxzKDNpC
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But there was no water here. Just blood, bile and—258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWn56AucGC
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His gaze dropped to the shattered frost fragments scattered across the floor. The ice that had saved his life earlier.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1U3Ljh16r0
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'Frostmark creates ice.' The thought arrived slowly, fighting through dehydration's fog.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAxBcxfQeH
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And ice was frozen water.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWooY7dtyMg
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Cel pressed his left palm against the organic floor.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgtZ6Cwy6Q
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlimSAlxRoa
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He pulled his hand away, fingers aching from the cold, and stared at what he'd created.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpIR2zKo6J
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Frost. Beautiful and intricate.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpKrJMr8hZ
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Edible?258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJoUt7BFd06
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His stomach churned at the thought. But what choice did he have?258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPJ2rmY7CI
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOy95nm1Wmm
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He brought it to his mouth. Hesitated.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCK3Ud5bZNu
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Then bit down.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HxD5HM3zZ
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Z0y4LYsxC
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But it broke.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOI8zUxAuaa
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHr8w36SZbG
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He chewed carefully, feeling the fragments crack and crunch. Then swallowed.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9D4WrRCy62
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOyUlsgUaR
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Cel stared at the remaining frost on the floor, then at his left hand.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ68RdI3ieVP
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'It works.'258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6VPFNHTWho
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzFFTgcqal
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsPY9dBcWP
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His throat tightened with something that might have been shame.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc5L5ttKgos
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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."258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhze1fPjrr
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The words felt inadequate. Hollow. But they were all he had.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcCChCehh6N
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6ckz4XhiY
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When he finished, he stood, testing his legs. Steadier now. The frost had restored something vital.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2z73vF78J7
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But his stomach twisted with a different kind of emptiness. Hunger. Sharp and demanding.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LxngHF3xm
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His gaze drifted across the organic floor. The ribbed walls. The pulsing tissue that surrounded him.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgy36UvCgK8
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All of it was flesh. Meat. Raw, certainly. Probably disgusting.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmpofQx70W
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But edible.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1p1kpFHGMe
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEnTKX71XN
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwPOtqScqz
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Compared to that?258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ42d7lgzTOt
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Fresh meat was practically a delicacy.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡby4hcPStmC
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sXO3oXP2V
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His stomach turned. Not from the sight - he'd seen worse. But from what he was about to do.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFa4ykwzo1y
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He put it in his mouth.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48bZTMmFCW
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Nothing. No taste at all. Just texture - soft, yielding, oddly smooth.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWg5EGUxRwr
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7Z4psgJGl
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMTqjezWOV
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Cel clenched his jaw, breathing hard through his nose. Forced his throat to relax. Swallowed.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MLwtrLSVL
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The meat went down.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1ZUeBZWmK
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLvSgLXfUEL
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46HvKmZqpJ
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He stood there gasping, bent forward. Waiting. Watching for the inevitable rejection.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeoMpqZC2ag
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But it didn't come.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCP5ztg8thD
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qjSc55n2A
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshcDc9aKt5
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A third bite. Fourth. Fifth.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU087K6Auxo
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4kBOSkL82
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTV7WKlttaS
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqK1XhJ9W6
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"Right then." His voice was steadier now. Stronger. "Back to work."258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5i5AFsGfyt
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He approached the second tooth, blade in hand.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI7ydBmEwRW
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Cel positioned Silent Moon at the tooth's base and drove it in deep.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSZXqc2rHH
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCojVM5ilzi
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It went faster than the first tooth. His movements fell into rhythm - drive, wrench, reposition.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3aDXyFJNWB
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The second tooth crashed to the floor. Then the third.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAUHUwcg64a
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbA5eKf8LN
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He glanced at Silent Moon between strikes.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnzGTFcMnu
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Six crescents glowed along its length now. Two more than before.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQCBWOJbhP
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTR4h9SGbly
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'Empathic Steel.'258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCiy9yRZsk
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So the trait reacted with sharpness. The more crescents ignited, the keener the edge became.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjUCMhm2Cd
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKyNDITmH1
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The gap in the outer rings grew visible. Real progress.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDPYtEASNe
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Time became meaningless in the darkness.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvP7bGc4wG
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Tenth. Fifteenth. Twentieth.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHIgb9hiRn
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3pXl4ngXk
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How long had he been working? Hours? Days?258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlAjbiE6T2
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The gap was clear now - wide enough to slip through if the creature opened its mouth.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7W6RDLaS5X
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But dozens more teeth remained.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdWb0PvBrF
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He turned toward the twenty-first tooth.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXm0UwCCeXf
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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.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9vcTlAaKt
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A year ago, half this work would have killed him.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQzkBXo91J
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Now? He could keep going.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡocJ1VRQQ1m
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Gratitude flickered through his chest - brief but genuine. This body - this gift - would not break easily.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsDELNpABw
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He raised Silent Moon. Six crescents burned steadily along its length.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP7SRBirpaA
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He positioned the blade and drove it in.258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWbZcKeQfI
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Steel punched through flesh. He wrenched it free, repositioned—258Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rRW4SZSYD
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