Cel's hand froze mid-thrust, blade still buried in the tooth's socket.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsUv1LuGj7
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Another tremor. The walls around him contracted slightly, muscle tensing beneath slick tissue.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSOXtyHKby
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'Shit.'68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9mvc1wtDR
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It was waking up.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZneh3T4A9
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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. 68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gQvD26u6P
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRDtXZA3Cvg
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡieqgDKlvej
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Three steps. He counted them in his mind as he scrambled forward on hands and knees.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5CwJ4JT5Q
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The floor bucked beneath him.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kVqGnEEfl
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With purposeful motion, the creature surged forward. Cel's body pitched sideways as the throat tilted at a steep angle.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFvzoXqmsQ4
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His fingers found the socket's edge.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw62w37Gudt
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkAZqQHIs6
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Barely enough room. But enough.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtQske6jlX
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The walls contracted around him.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyG1R15lEN
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYiqhhZna4M
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lxiq4EGFN
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'Why did it wake?'68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3w7kasdJu
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Had it finally noticed the missing teeth? Felt the wounds in its jaw and realized something was wrong?68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6U8UCwjlE
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Or was this unrelated? Had it simply finished digesting its previous meal and decided to hunt again?68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYWNiwqn7t
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The creature dove.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDpjlJiRno
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY5nUlrhFSQ
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv1lrOZsjii
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfLC0eE4Rz
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0wCnq6EwE
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDpWqdChTr
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But he was safe.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJehfV8wNeR
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Hidden in this hollow he'd created, protected by the very flesh he'd wounded.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6UFYhp7llO
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xpPKI6esw
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZeoLr1Vkz
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But compared to hanging by a frozen hand while debris battered his skull?68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4d8fPL7i5I
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This was luxury.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqrNIBZPuk
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHx2DRqvVPG
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His mind drifted to the question he'd been avoiding. 68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltTBKD1EqV
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'What happens when it surfaces?'68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVb75k8C9Z
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzrBPgE6Qy
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And when that happened, he'd have his chance.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlV93WHJ6vO
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyfuc9MQjd
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If luck favored him for once in this cursed realm.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCnei85bNY
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But should he try?68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ72U3ymKXdH
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfovFpR1To
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The thought had its appeal.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgkUVBYA8x1
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQXcgfF3CY
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He could wait. Survive. Endure until... what?68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA5Jkg4iyYP
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'Until I perfect my technique? Until the worm dies of old age? Until I go mad from living in darkness?'68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEn5qQIZpfy
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No.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh912YzklxK
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His jaw clenched.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMbYAAk4TX
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsSlPOyUJB
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The creature had given him shelter, yes. 68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBh5yprv8K
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But this wasn't living.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyD9gBq4NzW
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This was another kind of prison. Darker than the cell. Wetter than the cultists' stone floors. But a prison nonetheless.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwgUeT4b75
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And he was done with prisons.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoQOudPQTr
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGcGiN6u9E
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The decision settled over him like armor.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4k339k4po
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Not because escape was safe. Not because his odds were good.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvePjTwXU1s
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRE8LHumeYo
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The thought was unbearable.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPDOjGpTiS
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His fingers curled against the socket's flesh, nails digging in slightly.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0PvDMwdFW
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'I'm coming for you. All of you.'68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQg79IbURaK
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The creature's movement began to change. The diving motion shifted to something more horizontal. Leveling out.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTDcaEYJii
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Rising.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKR2bjfCjo
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Cel's heart hammered against his ribs. His entire body tensed despite the confining space.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlNbG4nHJ3
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiS86E1yBZJ
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoOHfGUi8w
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The pressure around him shifted as the throat angled upward more steeply.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRUMxyPysy
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Then they broke through.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKMA6ibpVSd
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYrubpdgYl
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Silver light.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ28UlucsIhB
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Moonlight.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGTnPVBRCJM
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The realization struck him a heartbeat before the sensation did.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYIkJQbnkT
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUfsTj2QoD
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His muscles didn't feel stronger. They felt eager. Ready. Like they'd been sleeping and had just woken hungry.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkaZ6Xn63bB
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Lunar Vigor.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOEvvRH9Kky
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The moon was nearly full.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1kWu5hosu
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Cel's lips pulled back from his teeth in a feral grin.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDGQJWsdQB1
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7IsBoEsnDC
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And in the center of it all, something fell through the opening.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiUu6kcOw1
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Fast. Thrashing. Screaming.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUZd4jd56w
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhn0uJD9kDP
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The maw snapped shut.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTrgbKZAfQ
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7V5JV9ogU4
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Cel froze in his socket, heart hammering, every muscle still coiled to spring—68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgk9ArM5EtV
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A wet tearing sound, the scrape of claws on flesh, then a shriek - high and piercing, metal dragged across bone.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsevbW5NNDe
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnr5ywdxUqt
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But instead of sliding down with it, the creature caught itself. 68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnVMblidbC
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Its remaining claws sank deep into the throat's walls - into the gap where Cel had carved away the teeth.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0FOymoviM
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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. 68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8eVZbNwCJ
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But Cel had removed the grinder.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM3OwrnEobn
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Created a gap wide enough to slip through.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSGNVeEReT
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXG1LD52Kfr
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Blood sprayed. The throat convulsed.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCMlQtQ7yl
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Cel pressed himself deeper into the socket as the violence exploded around him.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzD7hUfO2r
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFcU8QUOIHI
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And even if he could fight—68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfG9WTx4TGe
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The worm's entire body shuddered.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyHRCYj3SF
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Massive. Violent.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmklmG5PBB
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdwJauVhouZ
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yLGqdfukG
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But the creature held fast, shrieking and tearing with renewed frenzy.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBnQHOBSwSS
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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. 68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEtEEh6JiT
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEUTHuiT9P
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Fighting now would be suicide. Blind. Squeezed. While two creatures battled around him.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9j2sI5gVRv
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So Cel did the only thing he could.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzUyjHL7MG
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He held on. Pressed himself into the socket's flesh. Made himself small, still, invisible.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyc6iuu23ao
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And waited.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3QQfQDkR8j
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The worm's movement changed.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VVt4FEaWJ
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Rising again.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgEHPZMYlv
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Fast.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dAAboPr90
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkNWe1AiqK
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Then they broke through.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR570HENmMq
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The maw flew open.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MsY0AS7Mw
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD22Fco2Qea
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But he barely registered it.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVHtqQEdOm
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Because the air had changed.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhI8yO16DFi
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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.68Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYI10TjfXX
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Red light ignited in the depths of the worm’s throat.
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