Cel lay at the chasm's edge, staring into the depths.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzLbPWvxQV
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The white light pulsed far below - steady, gentle, almost alive. Each beat sent warmth through his chest, so different from the violet crystal shriek that had destroyed his hearing. So different from the four burning suns that had scorched his skin.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMAmg7tX6Yd
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This light felt... safe.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWDvcXTjKK
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His cracked lips pulled into something that might have been a smile if his face hadn't been so ruined.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35LqOrEHWr
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'Maybe...'155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoxxdVLzer
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The thought formed slowly through exhaustion and pain. He wouldn't survive another day in the maze - this much was certain. The burns covered most of his skin. His impaled hand wouldn't stop bleeding. His legs couldn't hold his weight anymore.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKOtebtdU0
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But that light was unlike everything else in this nightmare.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtp3QA8rFO
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And the skeleton had jumped toward it without hesitation.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDvAxRB9BW
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'The trial.' The words surfaced distant in his mind. 'Find the moon.'155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxV9KHrK6ah
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He'd searched the entire maze - or what little he could reach of it. The moon had vanished from the sky. The answer wasn't above. Wasn't in the crystal formations or the mirror lake.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnsTz8S3VL
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But deep below, where even the crystal-infested creatures were drawn…155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwz4wcTZej
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Maybe that's where it was.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiP99jv6WZG
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Maybe that's where he'd find what he needed to complete this trial. To earn the Moon Goddess's blessing and escape this place before his body finally gave out.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFtvEDRRk2
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It was the only hope he had left.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2l5nKaGpC
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Cel's left arm trembled as he dragged himself forward. His body scraped over the edge, and for one terrible moment there was nothing beneath him but air.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRmVKS5L4MC
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He fell.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfO0YffYVqi
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The air rushed past him. His body tumbled through darkness, too weak to even flail.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hH6SL2kc2
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He slammed into a wide ledge jutting from the chasm wall.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyddoZhEH3
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The impact drove the breath from his lungs. His body bounced once, then slid across crystal before stopping at the ledge's edge. For a moment he lay there, stunned, teetering over the drop.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgBTUZZ90E
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Then his weight settled. 155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQGGYf0E2D
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Pain registered distantly - his shoulder, his ribs, something in his back. 155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCTJotddLP
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Cel's fingers twitched against smooth stone. His cheek pressed against crystal, cold seeping through burnt skin.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGyoMCK9Ps
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‘Down.’155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRKPjUbX1s
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The word echoed in his skull. Not a choice. A command his body obeyed without consulting his mind.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVVzndPKZf
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His left hand scraped forward, finding purchase. Then his knee dragged up. He crawled across the ledge toward the next outcropping, his body moving like something already dead, animated by will alone.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgn7Cs7L1u
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Each movement should have been agony. His burns stretched and split with every reach. His impaled hand dragged uselessly, leaving a trail of blood. His shoulder screamed from the impact.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFilpWfpPdK
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But the pain felt... distant.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4oPiHy2ee
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Muffled, like the silence that had swallowed his hearing.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzHdZVeSCI
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His left hand reached for the next crystal. The edge sliced his palm - he watched blood well up, watched it smear across crystal. The pain registered somewhere far away, disconnected from him.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFmDsz9o3e
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He kept descending.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSUaX8bfqp
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The walls pressed closer. The violet glow from the crystals grew dimmer, overwhelmed by that white radiance rising from below. With each movement down, the light grew stronger. Warmer.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTjaCNHPSc
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His breathing steadied. The constant burn in his chest eased. His throat stopped feeling like shredded glass.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQihISaqy1
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Cel's foot slipped on smooth stone. He caught himself, barely, fingers scraping for purchase. His body swung wild for a moment before finding purchase.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQQNy0q4mu
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He should be panicking. Should be terrified.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrf1OwlJmX
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But he wasn't.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNXT1HPvek
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His legs stopped shaking. The trembling in his arms faded. When he reached for the next handhold, his grip felt... steady. Strong, even.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoj0lz2gGaE
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Cel pulled himself onto a wider ledge and paused. His legs shifted beneath him - not crawling now. Walking.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhuyl13Lw2g
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When had he stood up?155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNqJjUFgbR
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He looked down at his feet, planted firmly on crystal. Looked at his legs supporting his weight without collapsing.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDa01W95MRD
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A crystal formation beside him caught his reflection, its surface smooth as glass.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefVJtlvs2Z
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His face stared back at him.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLQg8pBO09
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But the expression wasn't his own. The reflection's eyes held nothing - no rage, no defiance, no spark of the newly found hope. Just empty acceptance. The face of someone who had already surrendered to his fate.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQyO6YqfKJh
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Cel's hand reached for the next formation. The reflection's hand reached too, matching his movement exactly.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyALfAMfktS
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He kept descending. His body moved with increasing ease, as if the journey required less effort with each step.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBz8PU7gqc2
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The reflection followed beside him, its hollow eyes tracking him.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOxyVRvpUNU
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'Wait… isn't that…?' 155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡweoANESJtC
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The thought barely surfaced before slipping away. 155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YPbULRdYp
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'What was it again?' 155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMit4TadeM
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A shiver crawled up his spine. His instincts screamed at him to stop, to look, to remember.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBz5aDBgF2
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But he didn't. 155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6PVHCSR15
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His steps never faltered. His gaze never wavered. Whatever it was, it didn't matter anymore.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgzI6yRlpS
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He focused on the path below. Left hand. Right foot. Down.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbu8EeSfGB
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The white light pulsed stronger now, close enough that its warmth touched his skin. Not burning - nothing like the suns. This heat seeped into him gently, filling something that had been empty for so long.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxgxSzjeqp
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Cel’s next step found solid ground.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6RY3MrH0b
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Since…155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWuLw0qSUB
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Since when?155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWL9wUMAtxV
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He blinked, swaying. The chasm walls rose impossibly high above him - he'd been descending for... how long? Minutes? Hours? The memory felt hazy, like trying to hold mist.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAyfViwuda
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The cavern floor stretched before him, smooth and vast. And there - suspended in the center like a captivating star - hovered what he'd been drawn toward.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtxqN1feVf1
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A sphere of pure light.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlk6tqr3zms
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It filled the cavern, so enormous his mind struggled to grasp its scale. The white radiance pulsed from within it, steady as a heartbeat, casting everything in gentle luminescence.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqm9atS6JJ
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Bones lay scattered across the floor beneath it - pale fragments studded with violet crystal growths, half-buried in the ground. 155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPaOITRQEJ4
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He didn't look at them.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHnaeJQtQE
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All that existed was the light.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk3EjLWAV5h
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‘Beautiful.’155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZElnvHb3t
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The word formed in his mind, soft and certain. This was beauty - real beauty. Everything else had been false. The pale moon from his vision, his family's faith, all of it hollow compared to this.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpsklrT1RY
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Cel's left foot moved forward. Then his right. The pain in his feet had vanished. When had that happened? He couldn't remember his last step hurting.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCZnWSyJSN
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Couldn't remember why anything had hurt at all.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA646rFb3G2
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The burns on his skin - were they still there? He looked down at his arms. Saw the blistered flesh, the weeping wounds, the blood. But felt nothing. They might as well have belonged to someone else.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RxMjzvt3s
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Another step forward.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPYPuAE88Y
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The light pulsed. His heart pulsed with it.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCkMIZ0XgX
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'The trial...'155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ZQ3hwALuz
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The thought drifted through his mind like smoke, barely formed before dissolving. There had been something. Some task. Some reason he'd been suffering.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIaRGQGfxl
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But it seemed so distant now. So... unnecessary.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFif7Nng5i
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Why had he been searching? Why had he fought? This peace had been waiting all along. Just here. Just below.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Xbfl5WcjI
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Each step brought him closer. The warmth intensified - not burning, never burning. It filled the hollow spaces inside him. The emptiness carved out by a year of starvation and torture. The wounds left by his family's betrayal. The cracks from watching his father beat him while his mother did nothing.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARyznP519a
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All of it... filling.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65FOa4s7nn
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Becoming whole.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRaHL9I4sg
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The sphere towered before him now, so close he could reach out and touch it. Its surface rippled like liquid silver. Inviting. Welcoming.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEGBiP7X5z
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'Home.'155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw788EM8oKJ
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Yes. That's what this was. He'd been searching for a home. For somewhere he belonged. And he'd found it. Finally.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNM4KKiwSe
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Cel lifted his left hand, fingers extending toward the light.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMtKijwyTu
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The warmth reached out to meet him, eager, hungry. It wrapped around his hand like a lover's touch, gentle and consuming. The sensation traveled up his arm—not pain, but fullness. Being filled. Being completed.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzykgWOpnXa
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His knees buckled.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2NJeDE3iH
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Cel gasped as the light surged into him, pouring through the point of contact. It flooded his veins, his bones, his mind. Every empty space inside him suddenly packed full of something vast and eternal.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVpSC4hkwH
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His lips curved into a smile.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQcOQ8vRBIk
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This was everything. This was all he'd ever needed. The maze didn't matter. His trial didn't matter. Finding the moon didn't matter.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgndN2Kc47g
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Only this.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVURHrZQMyl
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Only—155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFOuK6CdB9
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The cavern shook.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxexwsyqOJh
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The tremor hit with brutal force, violent enough to crack the crystal formations on the walls.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSw2qIJ5ogO
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Cel's hand ripped free from the sphere as he fell sideways.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0rzHcVQbj
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The warmth vanished instantly, replaced by crushing cold.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdtnJ0TW0C
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His consciousness slammed back into place.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6K4eqN7aW9
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The pain returned all at once.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpooiFQdnXm
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His knees hit the ground. Pain exploded through his legs, sharp and immediate. The burns on his skin screamed. His impaled hand throbbed with each heartbeat, blood pulsing hot between his fingers.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEtdVy480Wc
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He gasped, lungs heaving like he'd been held underwater.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3wL1f1cPR
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'What—'155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupJww7YlUq
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His vision swam. The cavern spun around him, crystal walls refracting light in dizzying patterns. He pressed his left hand against the floor, trying to anchor himself.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqLTCwNWjr
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The sphere hovered before him, pulsing gently. 155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SpuTh8mZF
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It was beautiful. Inviting.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLaBQ8gasz
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Cel's chest tightened. The urge to reach out again clawed at him, desperate and immediate. Just one more touch. Just to feel that warmth, that completeness—155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrWvWtmNJu
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'No.'155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUopH5TAIM
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He jerked his gaze away, jaw clenched so hard his teeth ached. His hands shook. His entire body trembled with something between withdrawal and rage.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgAmVfB7uq
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'This thing… manipulated me.' The thought arrived with perfect clarity. 155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTTWZ0Hirgz
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But when had it started?155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswpK32aWNW
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Cel's breath came faster. He'd climbed down into the chasm on his own. Hadn't he? He'd made that choice. Seen the light and decided—155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpFGblSs2G
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'Decided what?'155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02QfoqAgjy
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His fingers dug into the stone floor. When exactly had he decided? When had the pain stopped mattering? How had his body suddenly become strong enough to walk when moments before he couldn't even stand?155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0RMd279qIi
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His mind raced backward through fragmented memories.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1WUhITmo1
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The crystal maze. The spire in the distance - he'd avoided it. Gone the opposite direction every time.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnEpZNGq1b
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Why?155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0h17a2C2v1
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He'd told himself it looked dangerous. Ominous. Something about it felt wrong.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtmXIrhtPo
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But what if that feeling hadn't been his own?155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbbcsMYOHb
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His stomach clenched. The thought wormed deeper, spreading like infection through his memories. Every decision he'd made in the maze - every turn away from the spire, every frustrated return to the ruin, every restless urge to keep moving in the other direction.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrADNybJsYd
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What if none of it had been his choice?155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rPIJ3qjDb
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The marks he'd carved to track his path had disappeared. The maze had folded in on itself, passages appearing and vanishing. He'd assumed it was the maze's nature.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikcg7fp6do
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What if it had been guiding him all along? Herding him like cattle toward this exact spot?155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJkgkuPNnk
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Cel's breathing grew ragged. His nails bit into his palms hard enough to draw blood, mixing with the dried gore already coating his hands.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡro5d9URwNo
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Even now - especially now - that warmth pressed against his skin. Gentle. Patient. Waiting for him to reach out again. 155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTCVQrxd0i
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To surrender.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEnIDudsfN
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Just like the reflection watching him from the wall. Just like his father had wanted. Just like the cultists who'd bled him for a year, waiting for him to break.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFDAQ7JhIDH
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Just like everyone who'd ever tried to make him into something less.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ysvCUcIlW
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Heat flooded through Cel's chest - not the sphere's false warmth, but something hotter. Sharper. The rage that had kept him alive when he should have died a dozen times over.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvsag7h25f
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His jaw clenched. His fingers curled into fists despite the agony in his right hand.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmkBaQBrOE
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'It almost had me.'155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DlbXw9PXE
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The sphere pulsed before him. That gentle rhythm matching his heartbeat, trying to align again. Trying to pull him back.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOdJG4FQQM
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Cel tried to push himself up. His legs trembled, refusing to hold his weight. He collapsed back onto his knees, gasping.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12VbATKSEk
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He needed to move. Needed to crawl away, find somewhere to hide from that light while his mind was clear enough to think. The cavern had to have other passages, other routes.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjL6SC9U6pk
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He turned.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVcLuUqNg8
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A massive head filled his vision.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4GspziN1x
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Cel's breath stopped.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFL6qgvKQTN
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Pale, translucent skin stretched over angular bone structure. Violet light burned in hollow eye sockets.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzvwqPqM5X
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The creature blinked.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUrH5qlOa0
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Slow. Deliberate.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNZr8ARALj
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Its head tilted slightly, studying him with an intelligence that made his skin crawl. Not animal. Not human.155Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcwiDB1aw0
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