Cel's hand froze mid-thrust, blade still buried in the tooth's socket.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7cnwPTNG4v
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Another tremor. The walls around him contracted slightly, muscle tensing beneath slick tissue.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SeJyLXdq6
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'Shit.'89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfwsh6UnHV
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It was waking up.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1gmMFgv9Jp
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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. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUhTvDIoT1f
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5I3FoJK9Of
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvYx2ck2gB
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Three steps. He counted them in his mind as he scrambled forward on hands and knees.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCzoYr0m65U
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The floor bucked beneath him.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wiDKfKWsa
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With purposeful motion, the creature surged forward. Cel's body pitched sideways as the throat tilted at a steep angle.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡayYoN1u8Sb
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His fingers found the socket's edge.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDJVnQCPj6
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaHONLHS1I
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Barely enough room. But enough.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmYw5oYW1b
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The walls contracted around him.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTZMOjPoq8
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQKKKMpZvKO
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdALqVYjLGq
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'Why did it wake?'89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy28xrrAsFE
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Had it finally noticed the missing teeth? Felt the wounds in its jaw and realized something was wrong?89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6X2nGdPyj
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Or was this unrelated? Had it simply finished digesting its previous meal and decided to hunt again?89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvx4gPzZ3J
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The creature dove.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiawnldNbi8
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Tx5u2sZsT
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYs5mGM1NNZ
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MRxmxNiyb
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFlTd2dJsMs
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOk7Q1M5QT
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But he was safe.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAR2RHZpPKz
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Hidden in this hollow he'd created, protected by the very flesh he'd wounded.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrkLNkz4s6
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0XP097KqT
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLNCOnQQtjl
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But compared to hanging by a frozen hand while debris battered his skull?89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtfzYZBNG0y
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This was luxury.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPbmwwMHOh
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4kyCAMJDM
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His mind drifted to the question he'd been avoiding. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JXprdWDuX
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'What happens when it surfaces?'89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzWDwAIiQzw
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVeUA9tCw9E
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And when that happened, he'd have his chance.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcu3FgbCcYa
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqEP8izMVG
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If luck favored him for once in this cursed realm.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm4SPgU962g
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But should he try?89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqds58mX17b
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbH3QtQ8Cq0
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The thought had its appeal.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0i3neDnSib
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4Cx1uqbfU
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He could wait. Survive. Endure until... what?89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLIxJ6WWVl
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'Until I perfect my technique? Until the worm dies of old age? Until I go mad from living in darkness?'89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWhH4knoie
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No.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojPd70GTbA
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His jaw clenched.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstzHL1Sjpm
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SPHN95FOz
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The creature had given him shelter, yes. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR1njZ5lzOh
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But this wasn't living.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd34IhiyvsS
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This was another kind of prison. Darker than the cell. Wetter than the cultists' stone floors. But a prison nonetheless.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpcUpIqlJC2
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And he was done with prisons.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnHFHfvqV8
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1uAXgnGee3
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The decision settled over him like armor.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pyvu7WgYE
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Not because escape was safe. Not because his odds were good.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOxvDraJRoh
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0bn7w2okt
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The thought was unbearable.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9HMLSlYaz
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His fingers curled against the socket's flesh, nails digging in slightly.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoFsyKvxTT
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'I'm coming for you. All of you.'89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gbq5WfHJT
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The creature's movement began to change. The diving motion shifted to something more horizontal. Leveling out.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTctxxTNii
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Rising.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQid9PylyWD
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Cel's heart hammered against his ribs. His entire body tensed despite the confining space.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsheDDvFn6T
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZObe03ilI8
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4B1Ul6Cvph
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The pressure around him shifted as the throat angled upward more steeply.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRL388qD6wH
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Then they broke through.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIsXpttBHk
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwROihMUqnR
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Silver light.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWInYweOFt
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Moonlight.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlczmfse2hB
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The realization struck him a heartbeat before the sensation did.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bWyfWKQ2f
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKJ5OgQ8jR
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His muscles didn't feel stronger. They felt eager. Ready. Like they'd been sleeping and had just woken hungry.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHe5Mjh1P1
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Lunar Vigor.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyvUrDOsNC
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The moon was nearly full.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8a7O70fBLH
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Cel's lips pulled back from his teeth in a feral grin.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGlbT5UyrH
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTzm3uNOUC
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And in the center of it all, something fell through the opening.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpp9pTJV2M0
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Fast. Thrashing. Screaming.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEv1uMS31b
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5On8UANpX
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The maw snapped shut.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡog20hKDKgT
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0kWchfjBoW
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Cel froze in his socket, heart hammering, every muscle still coiled to spring—89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfonLoFl2Iv
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A wet tearing sound, the scrape of claws on flesh, then a shriek - high and piercing, metal dragged across bone.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIyfWHGHlHQ
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBsEuRArSLp
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But instead of sliding down with it, the creature caught itself. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17ZrQPUmyJ
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Its remaining claws sank deep into the throat's walls - into the gap where Cel had carved away the teeth.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGPafJzfEp
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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. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiMbDimE77L
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But Cel had removed the grinder.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgK2MRUSYci
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Created a gap wide enough to slip through.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjBuplDt4p
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6PJRoDiDX
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Blood sprayed. The throat convulsed.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62liVOzDPA
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Cel pressed himself deeper into the socket as the violence exploded around him.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZk8xf1prxR
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdtiAxYxJy
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And even if he could fight—89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUrwoyk3bWn
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The worm's entire body shuddered.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TFeCnifZb
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Massive. Violent.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPVa5XhG5rn
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBG48P8RkG
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh33YO13kxy
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But the creature held fast, shrieking and tearing with renewed frenzy.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTwyx1PZX1
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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. 89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgDYixEJqY7
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWEyfOR41WX
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Fighting now would be suicide. Blind. Squeezed. While two creatures battled around him.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZW5icnSN9p
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So Cel did the only thing he could.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTS4HgPq4iz
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He held on. Pressed himself into the socket's flesh. Made himself small, still, invisible.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1LwGzdXnY
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And waited.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRS7uotAbN
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The worm's movement changed.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxCEDSUUdx
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Rising again.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQaaSshveJw
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Fast.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVObkpK3KK
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDx7MaD8aKL
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Then they broke through.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6cCvAYshH
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The maw flew open.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TiwduCOwb
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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.89Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETt3jyJ7IO
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Red light ignited in the depths of the worm’s throat.
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