Cel's hand froze mid-thrust, blade still buried in the tooth's socket.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6xQYyfVym
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Another tremor. The walls around him contracted slightly, muscle tensing beneath slick tissue.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpV7wlg531
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'Shit.'173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2iDJGUmSfM
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It was waking up.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡte06MGRUrR
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He wrenched Silent Moon free and scanned the darkness, mind racing. The plan he'd formulated while carving teeth - what to do if the creature woke - crystallized with sudden urgency. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrKUzzudFD
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The nearest empty socket gaped perhaps three steps away, a hollow wound in the creature's flesh where he'd torn free a tooth. Dark. Deep enough to wedge himself in.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOo0si7BNIe
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Cel dismissed Silent Moon with a thought. The blade dissolved into moonlight threads that unraveled and vanished, plunging him into absolute darkness. His left hand shot out, fingers finding the slick floor, using touch alone to orient himself.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5NIQOqK1y
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Three steps. He counted them in his mind as he scrambled forward on hands and knees.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlaO2LAsVX
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The floor bucked beneath him.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtZUzNZA2b
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With purposeful motion, the creature surged forward. Cel's body pitched sideways as the throat tilted at a steep angle.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyC8LjZTSj
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His fingers found the socket's edge.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1C2T9BEf2
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Without hesitation, he pulled himself up and into the hollow wound. Wet flesh yielded around him as he squeezed into the space where bone had once anchored. The socket was deeper than expected - he had to wedge himself in completely, pressing his back against one side while his knees dug into the other.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50eYmbEOf3
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Barely enough room. But enough.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0A6XIpQw4
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The walls contracted around him.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMMDtyCrDML
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Pressure built from all sides as the creature's muscles tensed, squeezing the socket closed like a fist. The meat pressed against his chest, his shoulders, his skull - not crushing, but confining. Holding him in place with suffocating firmness.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk30JmRSdIl
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Cel forced himself to breathe slowly through his nose. Unease clawed at the edges of his thoughts, but he shoved it down.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5lqVNPM6qB
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'Why did it wake?'173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNGXJF3iOq
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Had it finally noticed the missing teeth? Felt the wounds in its jaw and realized something was wrong?173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhgN4U0FiLO
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Or was this unrelated? Had it simply finished digesting its previous meal and decided to hunt again?173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡohxU2rK9uc
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The creature dove.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9lHVBhZLcL
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The motion was immediate and violent - a massive lunge that sent Cel's stomach lurching. His body compressed further into the socket as momentum pressed him backward, the flesh around him flexing and shifting with each powerful movement.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpG1HhbrRQ
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Through stone. Through earth. The same terrifying descent he'd experienced before, except now he wasn't dangling by a frozen hand.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoUbYQQtgd
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The teeth he'd carved free tumbled past his hiding spot. Their weight was insignificant to the creature, but Cel heard them clattering down the throat like massive dice thrown by something vast and indifferent.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJyX0NQfdx
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Debris began to flow - stone fragments, packed earth , ash torn loose by the creature's passage through the Ashlands. All of it funneled through the open maw in a deadly stream, whistling past the socket where Cel pressed himself as flat as possible.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSApuwe9bMh
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A chunk of stone struck the tooth next to his hiding spot with a crack that made his ears ring. Another grazed the socket's edge, so close he felt the displaced air against his face.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBGPd4ibjb
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But he was safe.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMQU9Rdyhz
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Hidden in this hollow he'd created, protected by the very flesh he'd wounded.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ15EDI4YjM
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The creature twisted violently, spiraling through some obstacle. Cel's world became pure sensation - pressure from all sides, the sickening lurch of his stomach as gravity lost meaning, the thunder of debris cascading through the throat around him.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJEjBx5cNF
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His ribs ached where the socket walls compressed them. His left hand throbbed where the hilt's friction had worn through skin. Even breathing required conscious effort as the confining space limited how deeply his lungs could expand.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfiHJszGrm
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But compared to hanging by a frozen hand while debris battered his skull?173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8d1FKBjs5
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This was luxury.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg6L7FGr9yC
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Time stretched. The journey felt endless - the creature diving deeper, then leveling out, then diving again in patterns Cel couldn't predict or understand.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLXwSeNTHC
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His mind drifted to the question he'd been avoiding. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2TR23pF8os
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'What happens when it surfaces?'173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSYw1J7tiCS
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The creature would open its mouth eventually. To breathe. To hunt. To do whatever massive predators did when they emerged from their lairs.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEB5p28Zdp
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And when that happened, he'd have his chance.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57MvxVQqz6
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The gap he'd carved was wide enough now. Not comfortable, not safe - but passable. He could squeeze through those remaining teeth if he was careful. If he was fast.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRmEUMVsX2
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If luck favored him for once in this cursed realm.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2OcduC2dh
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But should he try?173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJSVZasUvl
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He could stay. Carve out more teeth - another ten, maybe twenty. Make the gap wider, safer. Or use the time differently. Master the strength he couldn't yet control. Learn to wield Silent Moon properly.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3YwkWzv05
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The thought had its appeal.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7J4SsryYtB
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As crazy as it sounded, he had everything here. Meat from the walls whenever hunger struck. Ice from Frostmark whenever thirst clawed at him. Safety from every possible threat that prowled the Ashlands above.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9cKmv6RnjS
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He could wait. Survive. Endure until... what?173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFVPjurdez
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'Until I perfect my technique? Until the worm dies of old age? Until I go mad from living in darkness?'173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOSGQfJB65
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No.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF71upFX3RA
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His jaw clenched.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡciqOXWyYLM
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He hadn't survived a year of torture, hadn't endured the crystal maze's horrors, hadn't destroyed his own reflection and died beneath the moon - all just to rot away hiding in a worm's mouth.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDauemgSiSb
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The creature had given him shelter, yes. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejvkiwJeyh
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But this wasn't living.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhAEdLxvrW0
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This was another kind of prison. Darker than the cell. Wetter than the cultists' stone floors. But a prison nonetheless.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXe0Dpruc3
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And he was done with prisons.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmCfskX7O4
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When the creature surfaced, he would run. Escape through the gap he'd carved with his own blood and blade. Take his chances with whatever waited in the Ashlands rather than rot in this living tomb.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSjAnOruJT
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The decision settled over him like armor.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwjUGBz64o8
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Not because escape was safe. Not because his odds were good.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQGoCiY15b
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But because his father still drew breath. Because Darian still wore the family crest. Because his mother still pretended she'd been helpless. Because the cultists still walked free. Every moment spent cowering in this living tomb was another moment they lived unpunished for what they did.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOUPLX7Evf
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The thought was unbearable.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡir0fsN7ETK
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His fingers curled against the socket's flesh, nails digging in slightly.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpD10alLlHW
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'I'm coming for you. All of you.'173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtHYVHi8Io
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The creature's movement began to change. The diving motion shifted to something more horizontal. Leveling out.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOsz55xaVs
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Rising.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4x9Krbbfom
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Cel's heart hammered against his ribs. His entire body tensed despite the confining space.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34wm3ScDuE
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The ascent felt different - smoother, more controlled. Not the violent plunge he'd experienced before. Just the steady rise of something ancient and assured.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9XTcg0lER
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Muscles coiled tighter with each passing moment. His left hand flexed, testing his grip despite having nothing to hold. His legs pressed harder against the socket walls, ready to push off the instant freedom appeared.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6IKIlLRDB
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The pressure around him shifted as the throat angled upward more steeply.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVtnWRKb5j
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Then they broke through.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdN8FZRSXks
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Cel felt it through the flesh surrounding him - the massive jaw unhinging, circular muscles relaxing their death grip. Faint light filtered through the gaps between teeth, growing brighter as the opening widened.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJXTxnGWSU
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Silver light.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9hImZjEXV
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Moonlight.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlcbJFFLot
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The realization struck him a heartbeat before the sensation did.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZOFMwyxce
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Something ignited in his chest - not burning, not painful, but spreading. Like liquid lightning replacing blood in his veins. The exhaustion that had been pressing down on him lifted, simply gone, as if someone had cut the strings of a puppet and replaced them with something that didn't break.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcrV8W2jJE
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His muscles didn't feel stronger. They felt eager. Ready. Like they'd been sleeping and had just woken hungry.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZ8P8NBemN
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Lunar Vigor.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgr9zAiTEaQ
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The moon was nearly full.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgIUO5dyFS
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Cel's lips pulled back from his teeth in a feral grin.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFVwvqrPztA
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The maw yawned wider - light flooding in, bright enough now that he could see the throat's ribbed walls, the remaining teeth like pillars framing the exit to freedom.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF278gmVRHI
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And in the center of it all, something fell through the opening.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIdPkoNKL0
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Fast. Thrashing. Screaming.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8lVayOwxBb
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A smaller creature - stone-like skin and too-long arms - tumbled into the maw in a tangle of limbs. Its eyeless head whipped side to side, needle teeth flexing in panic as it realized where it had landed.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8QDDr3NvE
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The maw snapped shut.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡArkm3VzSg3
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Darkness slammed back down like a fist. The silver moonlight vanished behind rows of teeth, leaving only the faintest ghostly glow filtering through the gaps.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnWx59OV4d
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Cel froze in his socket, heart hammering, every muscle still coiled to spring—173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SjH7X2ZjV
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A wet tearing sound, the scrape of claws on flesh, then a shriek - high and piercing, metal dragged across bone.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0HcitN5Kc
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Through the dying light, Cel glimpsed movement - a silhouette thrashing wildly. One of its grotesquely long arms was torn away, spinning through the air before disappearing into the stomach below.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJLm6cyQAC
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But instead of sliding down with it, the creature caught itself. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLItcGB6jHC
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Its remaining claws sank deep into the throat's walls - into the gap where Cel had carved away the teeth.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKCu4kalNK
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If those teeth had still been there, the creature would have been shredded. Ground between hundreds of interlocking bone pillars as it tumbled toward the stomach - just like the other creature before. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwiavSMRAEl
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But Cel had removed the grinder.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ42BMFeR1nU
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Created a gap wide enough to slip through.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWPwPWUMqG
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It shrieked again, louder, and began tearing at the flesh that held it - ripping, clawing, destroying everything within reach in blind animal panic.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1cN0MaObji
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Blood sprayed. The throat convulsed.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvl89LwPoF
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Cel pressed himself deeper into the socket as the violence exploded around him.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJqbQyIE4y
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He couldn't summon Silent Moon. The socket squeezed too tight - there wasn't room to wield a blade. His arms were pinned. His legs compressed.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlibyO4oV9n
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And even if he could fight—173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJs2KRI20xD
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The worm's entire body shuddered.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jTPjKiKrz
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Massive. Violent.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwVIQwGFWd
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The pain from the smaller creature's claws had finally registered. The predator that had swallowed stone and earth without reaction, that hadn't even noticed twenty missing teeth, was writhing from wounds carved into its inner flesh.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlTYJ5JsZn
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The throat contracted. Expanded. Contracted again in peristaltic waves that tried to force the prey deeper, to crush it, to end the assault.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEiE7dI6bhL
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But the creature held fast, shrieking and tearing with renewed frenzy.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQUgF8eml5
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Cel's world became chaos. He was thrown against one side of the socket, then the other, as the worm thrashed. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFBnxi0vuu
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The smaller creature's violence echoed through the darkness in layers of sound - shrieks, wet tearing, the grind of claws on flesh.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh7lvAFmBiJ
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Fighting now would be suicide. Blind. Squeezed. While two creatures battled around him.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4qLDAPbCB
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So Cel did the only thing he could.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCSCvV1zeAJ
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He held on. Pressed himself into the socket's flesh. Made himself small, still, invisible.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKDUuGEC4e
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And waited.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2CbdgRKY9
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The worm's movement changed.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr9cAVNeLHz
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Rising again.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLiBnGnib4
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Fast.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkSHbKsFMB
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The throat tilted sharply as the creature rocketed upward. Acceleration hammered through Cel's body. The smaller creature shrieked, claws tearing frantically at flesh.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RFCFFXSVq
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Then they broke through.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZhktbG3fb
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The maw flew open.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJaeBpEx4v
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Silver moonlight flooded in like a waterfall, so bright after the darkness that Cel's eyes watered. The night sky stretched above, stars scattered across black, and that nearly-full moon hanging like a pearl.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7UUg3peoib
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Red light ignited in the depths of the worm’s throat.
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