"Shit!" The word tore from Cel's throat as the ground vanished beneath him. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9XqB9mNvt
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For one suspended heartbeat, he hung over the void.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXpzRdBFIOV
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Then gravity took him.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1XL355UCY
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Above him, the maw yawned wide - concentric rows of teeth closing toward him like a trap sprung perfectly. The creature had erupted from below, swallowing upward, and he was falling straight into its gullet.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡote2takxGY
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Cel's legs kicked against empty air, finding nothing.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuXMj1hFQB
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The maw snapped shut.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZ0ucruf6v
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Darkness swallowed the crimson sky. The teeth missed him - barely - their serrated edges scraping past inches from his skin. But the creature had him, trapped in the suffocating confines of its throat.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFiszUPpQy
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The walls contracted immediately. Heat pressed in from all sides, thick with the stench of decay and something acidic that burned his nostrils.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJH1M6sZWEZ
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His body still rotated from the momentum of his fall. The inner wall rushed toward him through the blackness. Silent Moon remained in his hand, angled forward by chance rather than design.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEynO1q22iT
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He drove it in with everything he had.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0x0tNVu3C
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The steel met flesh and stuck. Cel drove his weight behind it, feeling layers of tissue resist and tear as the blade sank arm-deep into the wall. Warm blood sprayed across his face, his chest, coating him in black ichor. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SlT8tviuG
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The creature didn't react. No shriek. No spasm. The walls continued their steady contraction, indifferent to steel embedded in them. He might as well have pricked it with a needle.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kRQdLW5qy
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Then the creature moved.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgV458N3VQ
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It plunged downward with violent force, diving into the earth like water. Cel’s body whipped back and forth as the creature twisted and writhed, tearing through rock and packed earth in its descent.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4JXoEXad3
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His grip on Silent Moon's hilt was the only thing keeping him from being dragged deeper into the throat. His arms screamed, shoulders threatening to tear from their sockets as his body swung wild with each thrashing movement. The weapon held firm, anchored in flesh, but his fingers were slipping on blood-slick silk. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAslvxmuoDS
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Something cracked against his ribs - sharp, sudden, stealing his breath. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7LcYp8vHQ
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Debris poured through the open maw. Stone fragments, ash, chunks of earth torn free by the creature's passage, all funneling down this living tunnel in a deadly stream.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCpwM1sqpo
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He twisted away, pressing himself against the slick inner wall, trying to predict trajectories he couldn't see. But the blackness turned every impact into surprise, every dodge into desperate guesswork.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0yNCqqsrVm
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Stone cracked against his shoulder. Another caught his hip—134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3xlTBrFuy
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His left hand tore free.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MjeNIeFzT
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The world lurched as his body swung out into open space, held only by his right hand wrapped around the hilt. The shoulder screamed.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtcyh4UdcX
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Panic detonated through him like wildfire. His arm was failing. One more violent twist and he'd lose his grip entirely—134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWpYovWCyE5
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His left hand shot up again, fingers wrapping over his right in a death grip. Both hands locked on the hilt, knuckles white with strain. But it wasn't enough. The blood, the thrashing, the angle - he was still slipping.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFDyFtyULOy
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‘Frostmark.’ The thought came like lightning.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYrdWCrSZEK
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He didn't hesitate.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6ii8LVG0z
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Cold exploded through his left palm.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqaSO0QKAlF
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Ice erupted from his left palm, racing over his right hand and sealing it to the hilt in a crystalline death grip. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd3lwEliGbV
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Frostbite hit instantly - a searing, vicious cold that punched the breath from his lungs. The pain spread up his wrist in waves of agony worse than any blade, any flame. Like winter itself was devouring him from the inside out, eating through muscle and bone alike. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXq5TFo5Xi
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Then something massive struck his skull.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLmd3dRLsn
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White light exploded behind his eyes. The world spun, tilted, shattered.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtnBobFsUeY
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His consciousness fled.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8sSp12CAh9
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Eventually, pain dragged him back.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcz2RS2wfZv
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Not the sharp agony of an open wound, but a dull, throbbing ache that pulsed through his skull in time with his heartbeat. Each throb sent fresh waves of nausea through his stomach.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6HQtLI9zGF
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Cel's awareness returned in fragments. First the pain. Then the darkness - so complete it might as well have been solid. Then the smell - rot,acid and something else, something organic that made him want to retch.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2C1d596rhV
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His body hung loose, suspended by his right arm stretched overhead. Blood had dried on his face in a crusted mask, pulling tight against his skin with every small movement. His right hand felt... wrong. Not painful. Not cold. Just absent, as if it had been severed at the wrist.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLIRs9Q3dT
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Panic flared. He tried to flex his fingers.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRl4bLXzOVK
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Nothing.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9YtqcNG9D
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Numb. Dead. Frozen to the hilt.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaN96Yq0SOq
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He tried his left hand. His fingers responded, flexing weakly against empty air. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVL5ernaAW
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Relief flooded through him. At least one hand still worked.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxAfcNTOnZ
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He blinked, but the darkness remained absolute. No crimson sky. No ash-covered wasteland. Just black so complete it pressed against his eyeballs like a physical weight. The air was thick, heavy with moisture that clung to his skin.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdqTy6Pyx4
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Memory crashed back in vivid detail. The collapsing ground. The maw snapping shut. Silent Moon plunged deep into yielding flesh. The creature diving into earth. Debris striking him until—134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQw4wQXMUv
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Understanding followed a heartbeat later, and with it came something very familiar.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2lR63U7H1
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Rage.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡchx42j6Umw
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'Fucking worm.' 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJlBA431YR
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He'd thought himself lucky when the creature passed after devouring the fleeing one. Thought he'd simply gone unnoticed. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTnztcZVQJ
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But this thing had seen him perfectly. It had simply been patient. Watching. Waiting. Playing dead while he stood there distracted by its first kill, lowering his guard, thinking himself safe. Then it had struck with perfect precision. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69uZW61WjE
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Cel's jaw clenched so hard his teeth ached. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSuI1DH6IDC
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He'd been deceived. Made to believe the rules were different than they were. That he was somehow invisible to these creatures. And he'd believed it - because he'd wanted to believe it. Because it would have made survival so much easier.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRIBzkOVWD
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‘Stupid.’134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2769eKgpl
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The fury settled in his chest like hot coals, steady and sustaining. Good. He'd need that anger. Need it to get through what came next.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRfXxCRKS7
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The creature had stopped moving now - settled deep beneath the earth, probably digesting its first meal while waiting for its second to die in its gut.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPd5WJkARGv
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Cel hung there in the suffocating darkness, trying to orient himself. His body dangled loose, arms stretched toward what he assumed was up. Gravity pulled at his legs, his torso, everything pointing down into the black.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡds27oUZMKB
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He was alive. The ice hadn't broken.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctd5PpwSHE
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Frostmark had saved him. The fragile frost that shattered from a single punch had actually held where his strength would have failed. It had kept him anchored while debris battered his skull unconscious, kept him from sliding into the digestive acids waiting below.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbCPDiY87R
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The irony was bitter. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERZlJxPEef
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Not even Unbroken Succession would have saved him here. That divine gift required moonlight to reach his corpse during a full moon. But buried in the gullet of a creature deep beneath the earth? The moon's light would never be able to touch his remains.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJSGDUNkVf
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The disappointing, pathetic authority he'd written off as a joke had been the only thing standing between him and permanent death.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPo5tKotfM2
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His throat tightened. He didn't know whether to feel grateful or furious.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDi4xgpilN
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A faint, rhythmic sound vibrated through the flesh around him. The creature's breathing, perhaps. Or its heartbeat. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7x35kqXBh5
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He couldn't stay here. Hanging blind in the creature's gullet while frostbite ate through his hand.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkMjfbXyTQ
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The way his body hung - arms overhead, legs pointing down - meant the creature had to be horizontal, stretched out like a snake at rest. Which meant he wasn't dangling over a void. There was ground below. Somewhere.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEM6PpVfWEs
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Cel braced himself, then wrenched Silent Moon free from the flesh.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrE2JjIoFqc
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The blade tore loose with a wet, sucking sound. His stomach lurched as gravity took him. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBrjP782YpP
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He dropped through the darkness. Two seconds. Three. Long enough for panic to claw at his chest before— 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rHdefANwu
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His body slammed into yielding flesh with a wet thud that drove the air from his lungs. Not ground. Not stone. The soft, slick floor of the creature's throat cushioned his fall.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrr4FxGojY
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Cel lay there gasping, his frozen hand still locked around Silent Moon's hilt. The blade lay across his chest, free of the wall but bound to him by ice. Four crescent phases glowed along its length, piercing the darkness with soft white radiance. The glow painted his immediate surroundings in ghostly relief - ribbed walls glistening with mucus, organic ridges pulsing with the creature's rhythm.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlKiIzdsIJ
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Cel braced the hilt against the ground and slammed his left fist into the ice encasing his right hand. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkAC5ThkQ9
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The first blow skidded off at an angle, pain jolting up his wrist. He repositioned, aimed better. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzOkyoFQwuP
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The second punch landed square - the frost shattered with a sharp crack, fragments scattering across the floor.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZQG71qHc2
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Yet his right hand remained numb. Dead weight at the end of his wrist. He tried to flex his fingers - nothing. The frostbite had gone too deep.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GkEEhHa8L
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Cel grabbed Silent Moon with his other hand and pushed himself upright, testing his weight carefully. 134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTB1hh2rKB6
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He needed to find a way out.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6r7nhXQ5jQ
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Going deeper would accomplish nothing. The creature's digestive system waited that way. Even if the acid didn't kill him, he'd simply be trapped in an even worse position.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TufPV7y1e
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Carving his way through the flesh was impossible. Those obsidian-hard plates he'd glimpsed covered the creature's exterior - armor that had probably turned aside a thousand claws and fangs. He doubted Silent Moon could pierce them.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEaFKSZfqV
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That left the mouth.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8k2jvnkGVh
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But the maw had snapped shut when it swallowed him. He'd felt it close like a trap, and he couldn't possibly force it open. And even if he managed that miracle, how far down had the creature dived? How much earth lay between him and the surface?134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Ly3PLCgnX
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His mind turned to Selina. He could enter his soul. Ask for guidance—134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxC4cNatign
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If the creature moved again - and it would, eventually - he needed to be conscious. Needed to be ready to drive Silent Moon deep and hold on for another violent ride through stone and earth. Entering his soul now was suicide.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcJF9pnmfy
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So he was trapped. Waiting in a living prison until the creature decided to surface.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4J1mqxSZ31
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His only chance came when it opened its mouth on its own. To hunt. To breathe. Whatever these things did.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkvvEg6Be7
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But the teeth…134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiFgLkZ7Vf
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Cel's gaze swept across the throat again, and something white gleamed near. He squinted through the dim light.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVicFDbU2MY
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A tooth. As tall as he was, maybe taller. Curved like a scimitar, serrated along its inner edge.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7l4gOoyCU
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His stomach clenched. Getting past those teeth had been luck. Pure, stupid luck when the maw had snapped shut and missed him by inches. Trying to slip through them consciously, while the creature was active and aware?134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWM9DRuPFXq
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The odds were worse.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJKjcYdASl
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Unless…134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qjawyAvWU
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An idea struck. Cold. Brutal. Utterly insane.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMierHeOKsK
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What if the creature had no teeth?134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIx0WAltGNF
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A grin spread across his blood-crusted face, wild and malicious in the blade's ghostly light.134Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP45q7PTIln
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