The sharp clatter echoed off crystal walls, seeming to come from everywhere and nowhere at once.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rDi4BCyhm
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Cel's heart stopped mid-beat. His knuckles went white around the crystal shard. Perspiration stung his eyes as the rising heat mixed with his terror.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrlWd0ntuCV
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Silence returned, broken only by the maze's eternal hum - that bone-deep vibration that made his teeth ache. Cel's chest burned as he held his breath, straining to catch any hint of movement, any whisper of what had made that sound.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxTMzG0CSr
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Nothing.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKtMuEGW0O
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His lungs finally demanded air, forcing him to exhale in a shaky rush. The sound seemed thunderous in the crystalline chamber.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBlssJGQyx
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‘Standing here like prey doesn't help.’ The urgent need to act blazed through his paralyzed thoughts.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiv670XAFjV
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Cel forced himself to move, examining the chamber more carefully. The crystal walls seemed solid, their refracting surfaces playing tricks with light and shadow. But as he circled the perimeter, something caught his eye - a gap so narrow it was almost invisible, hidden between two twisted formations.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xpXe7c3CL
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He crept toward the opening, carefully placing his steps between the scattered crystal fragments. Each footfall felt like a bell tolling his location to whatever lurked in the maze's depths.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kcaUiTHSO
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The passage was barely wide enough for his shoulders. He squeezed through sideways, crystal edges scraping against his back. Fire blazed across his shoulder blades as the razor surfaces carved shallow furrows through his tattered rags and into his flesh. He bit back a cry, feeling warm blood begin to seep down his spine.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNrwQQHAW5
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He pressed on and emerged into—287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSIy9JGmFh
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Nothing made sense anymore.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvcSvIQ1Qkt
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The corridor stretched ahead - and there, carved into the violet surface, was one of his marks.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIzlk5qkfK
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Cel's blood ran cold. He'd never been in this passage before. He was certain of it. The narrow gap he'd squeezed through had led somewhere new, somewhere deeper into the maze.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzONuKXx4NJ
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But the crude gash in the crystal wall told a different story.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9F1IWqQKaZ
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The maze had folded around him once already, trapping him in a chamber filled with his own marks. Now it was happening again - passages connecting in ways that shouldn't be possible.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1CnBoimGKh
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If his marks could appear anywhere, if passages could lead to places he'd already been without him realizing it, then every step forward might be a step backward. Every turn might deliver him to somewhere he'd sworn he'd left behind.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOtDpsZ1qo
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'How do you navigate a maze that keeps shifting?'287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfLmaU1Ihw
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The passage stretched ahead, violet walls refracting light in patterns that hurt to follow. But was it the same passage he'd just seen, or had the maze already shifted while he wasn't looking? His eyes darted to the walls, searching for some anchor point, some way to know if he was moving forward or being led in circles.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsil7hgK3yx
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Every shadow felt like a threat - not just because something might be hiding there, but because he could no longer trust what he was seeing.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ838DFvgWts
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Cel took a tentative step forward, then another. The ground felt solid beneath his feet, but that meant nothing. The floor of that circular chamber had felt solid too, right up until the walls closed around him like teeth.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwB93VaXtx
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But standing still wouldn't solve the problem.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIbl6zbkR6
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He pressed forward, the jagged shard trembling in his grip. Each step felt like a betrayal of his better judgment, but paralysis could mean death. The maze might be unpredictable, but at least movement offered the illusion of progress.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6a6PTpdFQI
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Minutes crawled by, the maze's constant hum his only companion. The familiar thrumming began to work on his nerves in a different way - maybe the clattering had just been a loose shard falling from the walls, disturbing the crystalline song.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwzMMxmWniV
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Just as his shoulders started to relax a flicker of motion shattered his fragile calmness.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGICXqHoeMG
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Cel's blood turned to ice. He turned toward a shadowed alcove where sunlight barely reached, his mind already screaming warnings. Was it real? Had it been there before?287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfmA3aclWS
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At first, only darkness met his gaze.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnqgJKzGpw7
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Then, movement flickered in the gloom again.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjX9COpl1L
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A gasp tore from his throat before he could stop it. His feet stumbled backward, nearly sending him sprawling onto the razor-sharp ground.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCgdglqwdU
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Something pale gleamed in the darkness.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIbK1TrOMS
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Cel's eyes struggled to make sense of what he was seeing. White shapes emerged from the violet shadows - curved, organic forms that definitely weren't crystal. Something that caught the light with a dull sheen.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVu638xrYow
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Bone.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxFhyBFudq
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The realization hit him like a physical blow. He took another stumbling step backward as more details resolved from the shadow.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNvxReGiYI
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A ribcage curved beneath something that might have been flesh once but was now crystalline shell. Leg bones jutted at impossible angles, twisted by crystal growths that had no respect for anatomy. The thing emerging from the shadows had been human once - the basic structure was still there, warped beyond recognition but unmistakably human.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLXwUfnKl9
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Jagged formations erupted from its bones like twisted thorns, each shard pulsing with that familiar inner light. More crystals had pierced through the skull, creating a crown of violet death that blazed with stored sunlight.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIC630ag0l
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Cel's breathing came in short, panicked gasps as his gaze traveled upward to where a face should have been.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnF9AktVdf
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Empty sockets fixed on him. Not hollow - that would have been a mercy. Worse. Much worse. Clusters of crystal filled the spaces where eyes had been, multifaceted surfaces that caught and reflected his own terrified face back at him in fractured fragments.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gB8GAxwnC
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The creature stood motionless as a statue, but Cel could feel its attention like a weight pressing against his chest. Waiting. Watching.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjl8NQN3OyE
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A soft clatter broke the silence - bone against crystal. The sound made Cel's skin crawl. The skull tilted with mechanical precision. A bony finger twitched, crystals scraping together with the sound of breaking glass.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ555BVmYJqP
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Then the shadows beyond began to move. 287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV2CnM6tFhT
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More of them.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfNopXyKUxs
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Skeletal forms emerged from crevices and alcoves he hadn't even noticed - a dozen crystal-encrusted horrors that had been watching him stumble through the corridors. Some crawled along the walls like spiders, their limbs bent at impossible angles where crystal growths had fused joints together. Others shuffled forward on legs that clinked and rattled with every step.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWDFQjwv7m
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Pain lanced through Cel's torso - phantom agony from claws that had torn him apart in the Ashlands. His hand flew to his chest, fingers finding unmarked skin where he remembered gaping wounds. The creature with obsidian scales flashed through his mind: amber eyes blazing with intelligence, massive forelimbs ending in death, the crushing impact as he was hurled into darkness.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0yuOJmgn6w
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He'd been dying there. Actually dying. And now more creatures wanted to finish what the first had started.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlc5AACImx
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Terror flooded his veins like liquid fire.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡku8mX5pF41
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Cel spun on his heel and bolted.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8P8elCo1R
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The narrow corridor forced him to weave between jutting crystals, their razor edges slicing at his tattered rags. Behind him, the scrape and clatter of bone against crystal echoed off the walls - a symphony of death that followed his every step. The creatures moved with mechanical persistence, neither fast nor slow, just relentless.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4lKhqxm6w
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His bare feet pounded against crystal fragments. The maze blurred around him - walls becoming streams of purple light. His chest burned, each breath scorching his throat.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSleZG43wci
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A crystal shard bit deep into his arm as he flew around a turn. The sting snapped his attention for one fatal second - his foot caught on raised stone.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhz5u1eWWgf
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Cel pitched forward, arms flailing uselessly.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCpxIqTkPLK
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He hit the floor hard, stars exploding across his vision. Sharp fragments pressed into his palms as he struggled upright.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdj8f7Pc8O
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'Get up get up get up—'287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3o8HGtLvSo
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He stumbled forward, terror keeping his water-weak legs moving until his body reached its limit.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOfsx1pPMT
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Cel collapsed against a crystal wall, chest heaving. Sweat streamed down his face. His legs shook so violently he had to press both hands against the wall to stay upright.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFv6uYfMga
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The clattering had stopped. Only his ragged breathing disturbed the crystalline chorus that pounded through his skull.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7jnQiytyp
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Minutes passed before he looked around.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76EX7bKfFy
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Purple walls stretched in every direction, surfaces identical as mirrors. He searched desperately for any familiar gouges, but found only smooth crystal - clear surfaces that mocked his careful planning. The maze had already shown him how it could twist passages back on themselves, making his marks appear where they shouldn't exist. In his blind panic, he'd abandoned any hope of navigation in a place where navigation was impossible anyway.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylEJfmdev6
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A sound escaped his throat - half gasp, half sob.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7EaA5DZtR
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Cel pushed off from the wall and stumbled to the nearest intersection. The crystals' hum seemed louder now, more mocking. Their surfaces caught and twisted the light from the four suns above, creating a kaleidoscope of reflections that made his head pound.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡusSIRmQf6T
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He dabbed at the cut on his arm, the blood already starting to clot. The wound was shallow but served as a harsh reminder of how easily this place could hurt him. How easily it could kill him.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydgSk3ytni
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Cel closed his eyes and forced himself to breathe. ‘Think.’ Panic had gotten him into this mess - but in a place that defied all logic, what could thinking accomplish?287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0Ut7y9CFC
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When he opened his eyes again, something caught his attention above the maze's twisted walls.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TDP8q8skf
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The spire.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQC5QWCMQjU
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That massive tower of violet crystal thrust into the sky like an accusation, its peak blazing with sickly light. The same spire he'd deliberately turned away from that morning, every instinct screaming warnings about its malevolent presence.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iCY03GfG2
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A bitter laugh bubbled up from his chest.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnME7KeoAPs
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The irony was perfect. He'd spent all that effort avoiding the tower, convinced it was a trap, a lure designed to draw the desperate to their doom. Now it was his only landmark in this crystalline hell - the single fixed point that might remain constant while everything else shifted around him.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0psKNytdYf
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Cel wiped the sweat from his eyes and oriented himself toward the distant beacon.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgODQU6AAI
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With no other options left, he started walking toward the thing he'd sworn to avoid.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE006nscbJy
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The four suns climbed higher, their combined radiance turning the air itself into a weapon. What had been oppressive heat at dawn now pressed against him like molten lead. Sweat carved tracks through the dust on his face, each drop hissing when it struck the crystal-strewn ground.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoE7UPLntAB
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The violet formations drank in the blazing light, their surfaces shifting from dull purple to eye-searing brilliance. The gentle hum that had lulled him to sleep now thrummed through his skeleton, each pulse rattling his teeth.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqIHewvAXy
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Cel raised his arm to shield his eyes, squinting through the gaps between his fingers. The maze had become a furnace of living glass, every surface a mirror that threw the suns' fury back at him from impossible angles.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXPRIMCj0h
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The corridors twisted like the intestines of some crystalline beast. Dead ends forced him to retrace burning steps. Wrong turns led to enclosed spaces where the heat concentrated until the air wavered like water. Each mistake cost him time he couldn't afford - and in this place, he couldn't even be sure his mistakes were truly mistakes. The maze might be leading him exactly where it wanted him to go.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjOOGpXXuSc
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But it wasn't the heat that broke him first.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWqZcj1Ge5E
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The humming rose like a tide, climbing from vibration to sound to something that bypassed his ears entirely. It seized his ribs, shaking them like a prisoner rattling bars. His vision fractured at the edges. The world took on a stuttering, stop-motion quality as the resonance pounded through his skull.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0xe21xZOK
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Cel clapped his hands over his ears. Useless.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ItPXrmD66
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‘Keep moving.’ The thought felt distant, muffled by the wall of noise. ‘Just keep—’287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0SPYZAlZsu
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His foot came down wrong on a crystal shard. The razor edge parted his skin like paper, sending fresh blood to join the dried streams on his legs. But he barely registered the pain against the symphony of agony already consuming him.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3Cyp1tgoL
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The suns reached their zenith.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6fuOiHA84
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Light exploded from every surface in a cascade of liquid fire. The maze became a cathedral of blazing glass, beautiful and deadly as a star gone nova. Cel's tears evaporated even before they could fall, his eyes burning in their sockets as he stumbled forward half-blind.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIBPEZhtt9
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Each breath scorched his throat raw. His lips cracked and bled. The air tasted of copper and sulfur, thick as soup in his lungs.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqk07SsXTpp
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The roar in his skull climbed higher, no longer sound but pure sensation. His head felt ready to split like heated metal. Something warm and wet traced a path down his cheek.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIe60rX7S2
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Cel touched his ear with trembling fingers. When he pulled them away, bright red blood coated his fingertips.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dP9AkkJFA
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‘I have to—’ The thought shattered under another wave of resonance. His knees buckled, sending him crashing against a crystal wall. The surface seared his palm like a brand, raising blisters that popped and wept immediately.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2uAcxUChM
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He jerked back with a strangled cry, cradling his burned hand against his chest.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvJEBXEJWd
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His legs felt like liquid stone. Each step required conscious will, conscious effort not to simply collapse and let the maze claim him. The spire wavered in his heat-blurred vision as dark spots danced at the edges of his sight. 287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmCU52A2Gr
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A corner. Another dead end. But when he turned around, the passage he'd just come from had changed - wider now, with alcoves that definitely hadn't been there moments before. Frustration tore from his throat in a raw scream, swallowed instantly by the crystal chorus.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvE59nA8K0L
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Cel dropped to one knee, his vision spinning violently. Nausea churned in his stomach. The world tilted sideways, reality becoming negotiable under the assault of heat, sound and blinding light.287Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZzvdF29Ej
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