Cel's hand froze mid-thrust, blade still buried in the tooth's socket.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjLnBjnEZP
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Another tremor. The walls around him contracted slightly, muscle tensing beneath slick tissue.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsBsnz7Otg
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'Shit.'21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBBdTMSzNV
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It was waking up.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTJoLCHGdD
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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. 21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkIZWnTOFS
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMbevL2hMB
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡooDU2v8hXe
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Three steps. He counted them in his mind as he scrambled forward on hands and knees.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgf6gBwIKI
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The floor bucked beneath him.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLUzPQPZxpu
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With purposeful motion, the creature surged forward. Cel's body pitched sideways as the throat tilted at a steep angle.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6f9yOd4Cg
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His fingers found the socket's edge.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH8nSBTZp8l
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQSww8cKel
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Barely enough room. But enough.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtNyVM2UOTa
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The walls contracted around him.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBTk1BeiKj
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6CMRg78f8b
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Qs7jSqfI4
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'Why did it wake?'21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvl0wN6o4oR
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Had it finally noticed the missing teeth? Felt the wounds in its jaw and realized something was wrong?21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTF1uvT7Ek
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Or was this unrelated? Had it simply finished digesting its previous meal and decided to hunt again?21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKktERbYpD
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The creature dove.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVqEPhlUGZ
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70UpNKqSH4
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZW6a28KIk
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2CwyIN9fV
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOgy1Gl7dp
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLhk5PHJMf
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But he was safe.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPd10qSnAM
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Hidden in this hollow he'd created, protected by the very flesh he'd wounded.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMxzWmpsSl
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGUFmpUcB5
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQyKkf3mWq0
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But compared to hanging by a frozen hand while debris battered his skull?21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJw5cI9CR3M
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This was luxury.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGR1ribepFH
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzke5PEG05
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His mind drifted to the question he'd been avoiding. 21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6sccIc9oq
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'What happens when it surfaces?'21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvrlzJrPQ0
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFvRy66bwg
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And when that happened, he'd have his chance.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwaNehtclW
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOXqRamrXq
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If luck favored him for once in this cursed realm.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufLuXKp5xl
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But should he try?21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIoAaUdtS2
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQE7nEhjTV
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The thought had its appeal.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3JdyqIA8h
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7jczwpoUYM
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He could wait. Survive. Endure until... what?21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSbqh2ZSdJ
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'Until I perfect my technique? Until the worm dies of old age? Until I go mad from living in darkness?'21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWRV2XHwdX
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No.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ivioyFH75
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His jaw clenched.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡye79B4Nd58
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX19dCBdt2H
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The creature had given him shelter, yes. 21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhAhawJY7E
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But this wasn't living.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkmAdgBBAs
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This was another kind of prison. Darker than the cell. Wetter than the cultists' stone floors. But a prison nonetheless.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1xnNnnFav
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And he was done with prisons.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBQlrMAdk7
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJ7DGULLxr
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The decision settled over him like armor.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4jOGr8IxY
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Not because escape was safe. Not because his odds were good.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdLpMZznAY
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHXQPwF8ka
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The thought was unbearable.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3G0Zgseli
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His fingers curled against the socket's flesh, nails digging in slightly.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnnFx0fPL4r
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'I'm coming for you. All of you.'21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncCDl3nJJ0
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The creature's movement began to change. The diving motion shifted to something more horizontal. Leveling out.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKZuyF2q9I
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Rising.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYyUQSSnLFS
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Cel's heart hammered against his ribs. His entire body tensed despite the confining space.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiF9CPrHrW
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEMWA9eC0W
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApF1SvSWWb
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The pressure around him shifted as the throat angled upward more steeply.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSd6y44IV5B
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Then they broke through.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04lnE1Uj2M
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFohKa7p72b
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Silver light.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFznahCKfeq
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Moonlight.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbM2GgYdWK0
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The realization struck him a heartbeat before the sensation did.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTb5s8sR8o
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3p9OBp4x14
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His muscles didn't feel stronger. They felt eager. Ready. Like they'd been sleeping and had just woken hungry.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAOGqJ3gug
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Lunar Vigor.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7NbymLac3X
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The moon was nearly full.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvcCG6cbfv
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Cel's lips pulled back from his teeth in a feral grin.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4urkUgGbZ
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKaiHlju5Tk
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And in the center of it all, something fell through the opening.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHhcwsgN6F
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Fast. Thrashing. Screaming.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡigywR8TAuw
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69IIIiuN7D
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The maw snapped shut.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATVlIcNquU
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzUFf5Qh1i
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Cel froze in his socket, heart hammering, every muscle still coiled to spring—21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPuwBngv66T
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A wet tearing sound, the scrape of claws on flesh, then a shriek - high and piercing, metal dragged across bone.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8SmPLf1wm
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1p3KvJqbH
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But instead of sliding down with it, the creature caught itself. 21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXfH8bKDOT
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Its remaining claws sank deep into the throat's walls - into the gap where Cel had carved away the teeth.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMesSscwxEl
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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. 21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFAoDwEpcd
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But Cel had removed the grinder.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fvZbYcbtb
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Created a gap wide enough to slip through.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiI3tvTsfgm
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcPGYo1EFl
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Blood sprayed. The throat convulsed.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6x2pya2sEA
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Cel pressed himself deeper into the socket as the violence exploded around him.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ39oRRWoj2E
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQiwMvMsgHs
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And even if he could fight—21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxF9u9nOSm
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The worm's entire body shuddered.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YnFN4RcNF
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Massive. Violent.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrV1VUlmSl3
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjB8xz1o3P
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlVhPqvvlc
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But the creature held fast, shrieking and tearing with renewed frenzy.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJSx9sI4Yo
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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. 21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡegSSg6vDSq
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpQ4Ndo7DY
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Fighting now would be suicide. Blind. Squeezed. While two creatures battled around him.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZZ52UwvjG
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So Cel did the only thing he could.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWkURNVMm8
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He held on. Pressed himself into the socket's flesh. Made himself small, still, invisible.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypomJxoQTl
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And waited.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jz8jTH7ft
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The worm's movement changed.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBM32WbD0z0
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Rising again.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5tRi09I8S
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Fast.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgxRb7tSHLn
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8uQY1I9Uy
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Then they broke through.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9spzNvtru
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The maw flew open.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBHY4rfJ4z8
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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.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlaGwhR8T0
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But he barely registered it.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqktd4YfOrj
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Because the air had changed.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkX5im3Jpxe
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Heat rolled up from below - thick, chemical, wrong. The kind of heat that didn't come from fire but from something older. Something that dissolved rather than burned.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmasfs2P8gf
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Red light ignited in the depths of the worm’s throat.
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