Cold pressed against burned skin.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjG5YTXj08E
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Cel's eyes cracked open. Gray light filtered through crystal formations that no longer glowed with lethal intensity. The four suns had set. Night's mercy had returned.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVKmvQbY5E
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He'd survived - somehow.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rcrfEg4BR
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His body hadn't moved. He was still slumped against the creature's spine, still impaled through the palm on the crystal spike. Dark blood had dried in trails down his forearm, staining hide beneath him.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xqd7NLIez
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The creature's breathing moved in slow, steady rhythm. It had stopped walking. Settled down to rest while he'd been unconscious.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpvc7dE1YC
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Cel stared at the spike protruding from both sides of his hand.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpb26kufyu7
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He needed to move. Needed to climb down before the creature woke and while darkness still gave him cover from the heat.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDWIj1wd8k
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But his body refused.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7PeoYqpIH
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Every muscle screamed. His skin was burned. His lips split. His throat beyond dry. He had no strength left.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡef0R4gNWrS
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Yet his left hand twitched anyway. Fingers closed around a ridge.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiUQBbhRqR
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He pulled.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQMtojKQbP
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Nothing happened.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAGBGNI9f5
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He pulled harder.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ8T4qzTtGY
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His body shifted an inch. Then another. Pain exploded through his impaled hand as the crystal scraped against bone. But he didn't stop. He couldn't stop. Not here. Not now.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2dZFJvzcsK
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With a wet sound, his palm slid free of the spike.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4laZXHi3Wf
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Blood flowed fresh. He pressed the ruined hand against his chest and pushed himself upright with his left arm. His legs trembled beneath him, threatening to give out.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYBeeXFDqM
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One foot in front of the other.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSofBjL44pJ
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His left hand gripped crystal edges. His right hung useless at his side, leaving a trail of blood droplets. Pain accompanied each movement.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3vWVjwv8Z
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Finally, his feet touched solid ground.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCjqozLrNW
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His legs buckled immediately.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXSDlXslLA
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Cel collapsed onto crystal shards, his impaled hand slamming onto the ground. The impact sent a fresh wave of pain up his arm. He bit down on a scream his ruined ears wouldn't hear.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVtFgZfalf
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He should be dead.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9H2Eicjwp
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The thought arrived with perfect clarity. No fever haze. No delirium. Just cold, factual assessment.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbKo9Iye5zq
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He'd been starved for over a year. Beaten and bled by cultists who used him for their twisted experiments. Forced to eat rotting meat until his sense of taste died completely. Transported to this nightmare after nearly dying in the Hollow Realms. Crossed the crystal maze under four blazing suns that permanently destroyed his hearing. Suffered burns and cuts across most of his body. Dragged into a lake of mirrors where reflections of everyone who’d tormented him nearly shatter his mind completely. Gone two days without water in killing heat. Impaled his own hand just to stay conscious while clinging to a creature that could crush him by chance, unaware he even existed.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04Ko6dtAuM
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His body should have quit a dozen times over.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdIClKowOee
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Yet somehow, his heart kept beating. His lungs kept pulling air. Some stubborn piece of him - rage perhaps, or simple spite - refused to let go.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSb0amguNM
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But he couldn't stand. Not anymore.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0X7ALuW9O
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Cel pressed his forehead against the ground, blood from his split lips wetting his mouth. His chest heaved with each breath. The night air felt impossibly cold against his burnt skin, every nerve screaming at the contrast.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZR64JKjXRT
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He knew he wouldn't survive another day in this crystal maze.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrTXgICeqp
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His left arm trembled as he pushed himself up. Made it to his knees before his vision grayed at the edges. He stopped. Breathed. Waited for the world to solidify.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYIZ1ePzIzS
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One knee forward. Then the other. Crawling like an animal through scattered crystal fragments that bit into his palms and shins.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2QpK9DwGQ
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His right hand dragged uselessly, leaving a trail of blood across stone and crystal. Each time his weight shifted onto it, fresh agony bloomed. He learned to favor the left, to distribute his weight differently.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡslUmb42EBX
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Progress came through painful effort. Each movement a small victory of will over flesh.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNMNLnwtwg
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‘Just keep moving. Don't think. Don't stop.’173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNGV61Dqsbt
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His left palm pressed against something smooth. He blinked, trying to focus through the haze.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8aZLJNlfl7
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The ground had changed. No more scattered shards biting into his skin. The surface beneath him felt almost polished, worn smooth by something he couldn't name.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTDHtJBEa7
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‘When did that happen?’173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRiaEtFAgL
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Cel lifted his head, squinting into the gloom.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbrD1btMDd
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The crystal nearest him rose at least twice his height. He followed its line upward - three times his height. Four. The crystal stretched toward the sky like a cathedral pillar, its surface flawless and vast.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5y4ZafBUiC
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He turned his head left. Another massive formation. Right. Three more, each one dwarfing anything he'd seen in the outer maze. They pressed closer together too, their bases nearly touching, creating narrow gaps between them that twisted at angles his eyes couldn't quite follow.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLNACF6zEI5
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‘Just how far did that creature carry me?’ The thought arrived slowly, fighting through exhaustion. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLB5EyILFG
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He'd been barely conscious during the journey. Had felt the creature's movement beneath him, the hours passing in fragments of awareness. But he hadn't truly comprehended the distance. Hadn't realized—173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHuEwzE2tTJ
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A shadow moved between the crystals.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUEwidg3XU
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Cel froze.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKw0dKlSd5
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The darkness shifted.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs8LJTJEIYF
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Bone gleamed pale between the formations. A skull emerged first - violet light burning in empty sockets, jagged crystal jutting from the crown like a broken halo. Ribs came next, each one studded with crystalline growths that formed a cage around the hollow chest.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3PyFfpAB9
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The skeleton's left leg dragged behind - crystal had swallowed the bone completely. The limb scraped across stone with each step, leaving trails through dust.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuVgEKugwM
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The skull rotated.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0huK65GmPr
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Violet light locked onto him.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVixbojrroB
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‘Shit.’173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lS28FTy1G
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Cel's breath caught. His arms were already shaking from the crawling. His body had nothing left. The thought of standing - of running - was laughable.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7etATU10A3
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The skeleton took another step. The crystal-encased leg dragged behind, slowing its approach but not stopping it.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bTJW9p4gx
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Another step.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDwQnQAL7C
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Cel’s left arm shifted. Then his knee. He dragged himself forward - away from the approaching thing. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZYO5RRX5j
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Too slow.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrBjx5At6ou
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He forced himself forward another pull. His right hand screamed. His vision blurred. The skeleton closed the distance with grinding steps, narrowing the gap with each of his pitiful retreats.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSVPBdJWcc
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‘I can't… there's nowhere—’173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUXktdHc3Fm
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The world shook.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡio5oyuBpOQ
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Cel's arms buckled. He hit the ground hard, cheek slamming against smooth stone. The surface beneath him rippled, sending violent vibrations up through his bones. Crystal formations around him blazed brighter, their hum rising to a shriek.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkoW8v8gB5
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He twisted his head.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJygXuhmDT
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In the distance - far beyond the dense forest of crystal formations around him - something caught his eye. A sliver of the great spire, barely visible between towering formations.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡioAsoVuof3
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Its light was gone.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMijlPUqym
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The violet glow that had always pulsed through its core had died completely. The structure was collapsing - its top already fractured, massive chunks breaking away and tumbling down its length. The destruction spread like infection, racing through crystal with terrible speed.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDq95syW5bQ
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Then the fragments hit the ground.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNYI7Ai3eE
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The impact slammed through the maze. The floor heaved beneath Cel like a living thing. He flattened himself against stone as the shock wave rolled through, strong enough to make his jaw clench and his vision shake.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASLu1vvjy1
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The skeleton stumbled, its crystal-heavy leg unable to compensate. It crashed to one knee, skull turning toward the distant destruction.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNLHFu1Uq0
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Cel didn't wait.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNhsYmy02C
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He dragged himself forward with desperate strength, ignoring the pain, ignoring everything except the need to put distance between himself and that thing. One arm length. Two. His muscles screamed. His vision tunneled.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AnGK8QWyB
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His left hand reached forward and found nothing but air.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6TUKGN4yS
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‘Huh?’173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqbgH9Iyhf
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Cel stopped, panting, staring at the edge that had appeared impossibly before him. A massive chasm split the maze - a wound in the earth so wide that it could easily swallow an entire city.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTgDvJ6gdO
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Behind him, crystal scraped against stone.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jdBNbUNct
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He twisted his head back.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHNiiOZKvu
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The skeleton had risen. Its crowned skull was fixed on him now, violet light burning in empty sockets. It moved forward with renewed purpose, dragging its ruined leg behind, closing the distance between them.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ig6f9VOsL
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Cel tried to crawl sideways along the chasm's edge. His arms gave out after two pulls. He collapsed flat, watching the thing approach.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52GnEu2HAn
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Ten feet away. Eight. Six.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGNrxx1kSv
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The skeleton loomed over him, blocking out the moonless sky. Crystal growth caught what little light remained, creating shadows that danced across its bones. Its jaw hung open in a permanent scream. One skeletal hand reached down, fingers spreading to grasp—173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0kBTr1itC
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It stopped.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4478G7fnW
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The crowned skull tilted downward. But not at Cel. Past him.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhgeH9glx2w
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Into the chasm.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLlGMy2BWK
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Cel's breath came in ragged gasps as he watched the thing's posture change. The reaching hand withdrew. The skeleton turned away from him, its violet gaze locked on something in the depths below.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuailyoQaU
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Then it stepped over him.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2CBXb0uCVh
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Cel felt the scrape of its crystal leg against his back as it straddled his body. Felt the thing's weight shift. A moment later, it was past him, standing at the very edge of the chasm.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJO1JjBdEV3
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It jumped.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Uf0Zlgnq3
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No hesitation. No pause. Just a simple, decisive leap off the edge and into darkness.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRywvA4lBHb
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The skeleton disappeared. Swallowed by the abyss as if it had never existed.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu82mxJWnSE
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Silence returned. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3GT1WHDzv
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Cel lay motionless at the precipice, too exhausted to process what he'd just witnessed.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡggCWnV5n3i
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‘What... what was that?’173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlNgpcKrsh
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His left arm trembled as he dragged himself forward. Just an inch. Enough to peer over the edge.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQkd8Y56O1
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Now, it is a repetThe depths disappeared beyond sight. No bottom visible. Just endless descent into violet-lit darkness that made his stomach clench. The chasm walls were studded with massive crystal formations, each one larger than any he'd seen in the maze above, jutting outward in chaotic clusters.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS9OLaxxyPe
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But deep within - far, far below - something else glowed.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhckKt7ViW
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White light. Not violet.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4eCBz2fax
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It pulsed gently, steady and alive. The rhythm matched something in his chest, a pull he felt in his bones.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoA7aJXCTU2
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‘The skeleton saw this. Saw it and jumped without hesitation.’ Cel stared into the abyss, trying to comprehend what he was seeing. 173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxZ3Epe4l9
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The creature had carried him impossibly far - the spire had been barely visible before it collapsed. The maze had transformed around him while he'd clung to consciousness. Larger. Denser. More concentrated. As if all its power was converging on this single point.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDjJHi5gKR
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He'd survived everything only to end up here, at the maze's deepest reaches. Too weak to crawl. Too broken to do anything but stare into depths that should terrify him.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbo5R1NiWd
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But that light…173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJ7fIzuRNn
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That light was different.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqE6YxDjzS
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It felt almost like… hope.173Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqO8lLnCprR
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