Cel stood and lifted Silent Moon higher, letting its pale radiance push back the darkness. The blade's four glowing crescents cast enough light to see perhaps ten steps in any direction.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx44FetilRY
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He began walking the perimeter of the throat, mapping what he was truly dealing with.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTfjxWShRT
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His breath caught.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡozRuBg4K7R
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Teeth. Dozens of them in the first ring alone. Perhaps hundreds total.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWsdvLdEQ8
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They ringed the maw's entrance in concentric rows that stretched back into shadow, each tooth a curved blade of bone as tall as he stood.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTsXmkEiqgK
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Slipping through them by chance as he fell was one thing. Forcing his way through deliberately while the creature was awake and aware?131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRPIrmdngaj
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Cel's jaw tightened as he studied the formation. The outer ring was densest - teeth packed so close together a child couldn't squeeze between them. But further in, toward where he stood, the spacing grew wider. The creature's throat, it seemed, was less concerned about things trying to escape from within.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TPukjx4u3
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His gaze tracked from tooth to tooth, counting. Estimating. Each one would need to be loosened from its socket, carved free from the flesh that held it. One by one. With a single working hand.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQqMSmKHFc
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The enormity of the task settled over him like a weight.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrvZnGKAmm
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"Let's get started then." His voice sounded strange in the close space - flat, swallowed by organic walls.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡil8jry4Qw8
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He approached the nearest tooth, running his left hand along its smooth outer curve. Almost polished. The serrations on the inner edge looked sharp enough to shred flesh.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0OC0Fu9s19
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The tooth curved inward, its base disappearing into a socket of yielding flesh. That's where he'd need to cut. Sever the connections. Loosen it enough to pull free.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xdKl28OLY
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Cel adjusted his grip on Silent Moon's hilt, positioning the blade's point near the gumline. A chokutō was built for thrusting - straight, single-edged, perfect for driving deep into flesh. If he had both hands, this would be simple. Quick, even.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9l7Moksl6l
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But his right hand dangled uselessly at his side. Dead weight. The frostbite had taken it completely.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYh0Pboqlh
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He'd have to do this one-handed.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOoqib5ggoQ
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The blade's tip found purchase against yielding flesh. Cel drove it in.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFd2xMnT7w
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Steel met resistance - flesh and muscle pushing back - yet his uncontrolled strength forced the blade deeper than intended. Silent Moon's entire length disappeared into the socket before he could stop himself, his hand slamming into the base where tooth met flesh. Blood exploded outward, spraying across his chest in a hot wave.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLvHXhN2tG
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Cel jerked back, startled. He'd meant to probe carefully, to work the blade in gradually.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBJYDovBfE
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Instead, he'd just buried it to the hilt in a single motion.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3MnTVXetl
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'Too much strength again.'131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXzITXqTbQ
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But unlike the practice swings where control mattered, where balance determined everything - here, raw power was exactly what he needed. There was no finesse required. No technique. Just destruction.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8fkvKJpvd
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He wrenched Silent Moon free and repositioned. Then drove it in from a different angle.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlJWEjKnFm
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The blade punched through meat and scraped against bone with a grinding sound that made his teeth ache. He twisted the hilt, using the leverage to carve away the connective tissue. Blood poured from the wound in thick streams.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ26SY2SxO6
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The creature didn't react. No spasm. No sound. Just the steady rhythm of its breathing continuing unchanged, as if he were nothing more than an irritating insect.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LjnYBsSRB
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Good. Let it stay ignorant.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gtsFWztRL
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Cel worked methodically now, driving Silent Moon in from different angles around the tooth's base. Each thrust went deep - deeper than he intended, deeper than he could control. But it didn't matter. Every wild, uncontrolled strike tore away more of the socket's hold.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNMBOK57Fs
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The work was going faster than he'd expected. Much faster.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmbL339f0c
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After perhaps twenty thrusts - maybe thirty - the tooth shifted.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbvWejgPlge
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Not slightly. Not a gentle loosening.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5G31P8eVU
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It lurched in its socket, suddenly free on one side, listing like a tree about to fall.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFMYHLWnHSH
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Cel gripped the tooth's base where it jutted from the socket and pulled.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEey43ioMJW
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Nothing. The tooth held fast, still anchored on one side.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwsCXuBtT5R
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He braced his feet against the slick floor and threw his weight backward. Muscles strained. The tooth resisted, grinding against bone and tissue that refused to release.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgboaLgT395
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Cel snarled and pulled harder.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7usZUKyQK
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The socket tore free with a wet, ripping sound flesh giving way all at once. The sudden release sent him stumbling backward as the tooth's weight shifted.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWdTxkQhoR
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The fang hit the floor with a meaty thud.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGR3IPRs6a
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One tooth done.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTztsCJ7nw
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He stared at it for a moment, then looked up at the rows still remaining.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGlCtp1xYA
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'That wasn't so bad.' 131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr04WCiVMA7
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The realization settled over him slowly. Yes, there were dozens more. Maybe hundreds. And yes, he only had one working hand.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEs7dmZbPF
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But he was strong now. Far stronger than he'd ever been. Strong enough that raw power could substitute for skill, for precision, for everything he lacked.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmBmFQJdwG
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This was doable.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx26xtkckDs
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His throat worked in a dry swallow, pulling him back to immediate concerns. When had he last had water? Not since his resurrection. Time blurred together, but his body knew - knew from the way his tongue felt thick and papery, from the way even swallowing hurt. 131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfgCd7PnEU
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He needed water. 131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzcAwvq7aT
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But there was no water here. Just blood, bile and—131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPwXgQ8dmzp
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His gaze dropped to the shattered frost fragments scattered across the floor. The ice that had saved his life earlier.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhE8uyc1zGM
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'Frostmark creates ice.' The thought arrived slowly, fighting through dehydration's fog.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzT6SEAPVwh
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And ice was frozen water.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5lGQItE9Wr
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Cel pressed his left palm against the organic floor.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0GbiM6IwD
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Cold erupted beneath his hand. The familiar burning sensation - vicious and sharp - raced up his arm as frost spiraled outward in delicate patterns. The tissue beneath crystallized instantly, forming a perfect circle of ice.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoVldbTOmj
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He pulled his hand away, fingers aching from the cold, and stared at what he'd created.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6fpJ9S6D3N
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Frost. Beautiful and intricate.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNltHmFMwK
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Edible?131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgDiKaxfpC
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His stomach churned at the thought. But what choice did he have?131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDB1jC0SGqY
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Cel reached down and broke off a chunk of the frost. It came away with a sharp crack, the fragment glittering pale blue in Silent Moon's light.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlxfmSD48F
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He brought it to his mouth. Hesitated.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbDqvqRt37
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Then bit down.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncCpe1uvzI
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The sound was obscenely loud - a crunching crack that echoed off the ribbed walls. Like biting into thick glass. The ice was hard, dense, requiring real force to break between his teeth.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GNpYhsaCT
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But it broke.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nDaphrsZ3
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Cold flooded his mouth - sharp and immediate, spreading across his tongue without melting. He chewed carefully, breaking the fragments down smaller and smaller. The ice didn't dissolve like normal frost would. He had to grind it between his teeth until the pieces were small enough to swallow safely.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDvcQnT6BV
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He chewed carefully, feeling the fragments crack and crunch. Then swallowed.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9ru0wy8qe
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The cold traced a path down his throat, settling in his stomach with surprising weight. Not water exactly. But close enough. Real enough.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwl0E2vbYkS
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Cel stared at the remaining frost on the floor, then at his left hand.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPMIf5yFna
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'It works.'131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xuUHHNPXu
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Relief crashed through him so intensely his vision blurred. He could make water. Whenever he needed it. However much he needed.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfBga8Owat
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The authority he'd dismissed as useless had now saved his life twice. First by anchoring him during the creature's violent descent. Now by providing the one thing that separated survival from death by dehydration.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNt6uy1amq
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His throat tightened with something that might have been shame.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIynNlOaSWR
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"I'm sorry," he whispered to the darkness. To the moon he couldn't see. To the goddess who'd granted him power he'd been too blind to appreciate. "I'm sorry I underestimated your gift."131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXVgrlUxgH
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The words felt inadequate. Hollow. But they were all he had.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI7VKPQwOe7
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Cel ate more frost, methodically breaking off chunks and crunching them down until his mouth no longer felt like sandpaper. Until swallowing didn't hurt.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuzqozJMjt
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When he finished, he stood, testing his legs. Steadier now. The frost had restored something vital.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAtVG0K81S
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But his stomach twisted with a different kind of emptiness. Hunger. Sharp and demanding.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpIWH0aqUFL
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His gaze drifted across the organic floor. The ribbed walls. The pulsing tissue that surrounded him.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprblOcsQxs
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All of it was flesh. Meat. Raw, certainly. Probably disgusting.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Dt8QWLqNz
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But edible.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mmTY2DT8r
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The thought arrived with crystalline clarity, and with it came a hysterical laugh that bubbled up from somewhere dark and twisted in his chest.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYAke5cfu2
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He'd spent a year eating rotting meat crawling with maggots. Meat so far gone it barely qualified as organic matter anymore. He'd choked it down, vomited it back up, forced it down again until his body learned to accept poison as sustenance.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RouKRd4bV
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Compared to that?131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYf5TIgRn0V
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Fresh meat was practically a delicacy.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDMCtZNj65
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Cel carved a thin strip from the wall near the tooth's empty socket. The meat came away easily under Silent Moon's edge, warm and slick. He held it up in the blade's pale light, watching it glisten.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsiroOsYFTW
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His stomach turned. Not from the sight - he'd seen worse. But from what he was about to do.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkHlLmXm5H
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He put it in his mouth.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZ4F0GsNwr
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Nothing. No taste at all. Just texture - soft, yielding, oddly smooth.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboDrhcqOrp
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He chewed. The flesh gave way between his teeth - easier than the frost fragments, but still requiring effort to break down. Warm. Wet. The consistency of... nothing he could compare to. Nothing he'd ever eaten willingly.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7I2PWuRCMf
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His throat convulsed. The gag reflex hit hard, muscles spasming as his body tried to reject what he was forcing into it.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpr0EMrCU0
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Cel clenched his jaw, breathing hard through his nose. Forced his throat to relax. Swallowed.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4y0uM7K0k9
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The meat went down.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEOCMQxVKT
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His stomach lurched. Rebelled. For a heartbeat he was certain it would come back up, that he'd vomit everything onto the floor and waste the effort.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttAQzGaiVy
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But his body remembered. Remembered a year of training, of learning to accept the unacceptable. The nausea peaked, held... then slowly receded.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ziwOigCEo
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He stood there gasping, bent forward. Waiting. Watching for the inevitable rejection.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdncvko1Nil
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But it didn't come.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfOgiPmyOs
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Cel stared at the walls surrounding him. An entire creature's worth of food. Enough to sustain him for weeks if he could stomach it.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXy4HZ4P66
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He carved another strip from the wall and took a bite. Chewed. Swallowed. Gagged again - less violently this time - but kept it down.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmv93QzY1W
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A third bite. Fourth. Fifth.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEUN2iaNRK
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By the tenth, the gagging had nearly stopped. His body was adapting, accepting this new reality the way it had accepted every other horror he'd forced upon it.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHtOhZQ9sb
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When he finished the strip, Cel cut another. Then another. He ate methodically, without pleasure or disgust. Just the mechanical process of fuel entering his body.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78M6ZOjXJQ
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Finally, when his stomach felt uncomfortably full, he stopped. Wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYn4dazwGK
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"Right then." His voice was steadier now. Stronger. "Back to work."131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY78a53v2TP
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He approached the second tooth, blade in hand.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpN5ba5rhlJ
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Cel positioned Silent Moon at the tooth's base and drove it in deep.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zyvRUZWw3
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The blade punched through flesh and scraped bone. He wrenched it free and drove it in again from a different angle, carving away the connective tissue.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPMwtdRdkIc
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It went faster than the first tooth. His movements fell into rhythm - drive, wrench, reposition.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjkL4jzcKZ
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The second tooth crashed to the floor. Then the third.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo9yERxFHaW
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By the fourth tooth, something had shifted. His mind had narrowed to this single task - nothing else existed except the tooth before him and the blade in his hand.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvXqYXIBJn
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He glanced at Silent Moon between strikes.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpQVQ5K7yQ
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Six crescents glowed along its length now. Two more than before.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeMhnrVtpHv
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The blade felt different. When he drove it into the fifth tooth's socket, the steel slid through tissue like it wasn't there. What had met resistance before now carved freely. Silent Moon had grown sharper.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPh219KCMdf
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'Empathic Steel.'131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVrOhqPsw1
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So the trait reacted with sharpness. The more crescents ignited, the keener the edge became.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7XrK8vCD3o
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Each tooth fell faster than the last. His strikes remained wild and uncontrolled, but the blade carved through flesh as if it weren't there.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOC9oEr4MVT
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The gap in the outer rings grew visible. Real progress.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCyEX1o5M1A
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Time became meaningless in the darkness.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3V6e53cJI
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Tenth. Fifteenth. Twentieth.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDIkTDlww6m
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His left hand bled where the hilt's friction had worn through skin. His right remained dead weight. Sweat and blood coated him. But he kept moving.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpGv9NanPo
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How long had he been working? Hours? Days?131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vCi0Q3tBM
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The gap was clear now - wide enough to slip through if the creature opened its mouth.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIycbMqXfA8
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But dozens more teeth remained.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYUdKKUvGG
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He turned toward the twenty-first tooth.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRkkD1NlKN
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Exhaustion pressed down on him - heavy and insistent. His left hand throbbed where the skin had worn away. His arm ached from endless repetition. But beneath it all, his body remained vital. Strong. The divine resurrection had rebuilt him into something that could endure this.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡePBdJ6rRIW
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A year ago, half this work would have killed him.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEILKjc79eo
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Now? He could keep going.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeha9z74xbq
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Gratitude flickered through his chest - brief but genuine. This body - this gift - would not break easily.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuEf87bp4Uv
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He raised Silent Moon. Six crescents burned steadily along its length.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHl3rF2viev
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He positioned the blade and drove it in.131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYzyZtFYgA
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Steel punched through flesh. He wrenched it free, repositioned—131Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWxFkejIUl
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A tremor ran through the creature's body.1234 copyright protection127ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQXA0RSQVd 尼

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