Cold pressed against burned skin.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLXULkC7oo
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLaGFjfQ3wN
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He'd survived - somehow.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxCZ7QzK5U
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbHBAOOjYi
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZVZ6aNWGl
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Cel stared at the spike protruding from both sides of his hand.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIVXKxYuPik
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1FjJ9EIb7
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But his body refused.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmwTGp1pV2
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Every muscle screamed. His skin was burned. His lips split. His throat beyond dry. He had no strength left.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58yr0YcJrO
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Yet his left hand twitched anyway. Fingers closed around a ridge.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXONy27qwr
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He pulled.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9C8JknrYG
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Nothing happened.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsVo2JxDZO3
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He pulled harder.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9nEhgi96AX
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDe9UAXDZR
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With a wet sound, his palm slid free of the spike.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIR8TAQZsz6
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YVfBkh5dX
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One foot in front of the other.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt9Ox1M7NQ4
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6S411ZiVZu
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Finally, his feet touched solid ground.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1p2d9lY82t
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His legs buckled immediately.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNIukiRBcz
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGawGZS7Qb
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He should be dead.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7CPNWDLVE
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The thought arrived with perfect clarity. No fever haze. No delirium. Just cold, factual assessment.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYlvrgbLPXw
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDT8KM6IOK
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His body should have quit a dozen times over.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpBmtkoRWc
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMMJ2BvmQH2
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But he couldn't stand. Not anymore.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcB1xY8ZJSY
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9y2vBuRG2
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He knew he wouldn't survive another day in this crystal maze.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOQvoCEHgl
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdROkGzaTh
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGoKNj96rG
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxVbbSEkEE
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Progress came through painful effort. Each movement a small victory of will over flesh.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jS5AaddVi
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‘Just keep moving. Don't think. Don't stop.’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2hAtilwX0v
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His left palm pressed against something smooth. He blinked, trying to focus through the haze.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZu7rBH9oY
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6hZv9gN3UJ
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‘When did that happen?’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡySRRZ0pvqy
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Cel lifted his head, squinting into the gloom.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZheejI6ox
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4u8EovzegC
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcZb0glQt6
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‘Just how far did that creature carry me?’ The thought arrived slowly, fighting through exhaustion. 160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAQ2wePn4O
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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—160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3nVSLe6lBV
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A shadow moved between the crystals.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQFetID4qR
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Cel froze.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNOF7AdS9Z
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The darkness shifted.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6gfFcboMe
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWSu3FfR2G
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxKR8W0s9l4
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The skull rotated.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWPP5ghdsI
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Violet light locked onto him.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupbYk2W86d
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‘Shit.’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZQX1OP8k3
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoySXzLcqAs
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The skeleton took another step. The crystal-encased leg dragged behind, slowing its approach but not stopping it.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wlV7sa8fz
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Another step.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQnaUWxWlU
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Cel’s left arm shifted. Then his knee. He dragged himself forward - away from the approaching thing. 160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PVUinOmJ6
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Too slow.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURNC0aLwBs
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTunOrDV7W
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‘I can't… there's nowhere—’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdsgCMkpUh
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The world shook.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgNfdDYAV5
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYSrSoRJSU
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He twisted his head.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9THyHCdDIr
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9d9IEHiEs
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Its light was gone.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6jjoPD3uj
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprG9YS2RJx
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Then the fragments hit the ground.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOzdws280T
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡinN3vPIquA
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ74UPQQoN2s
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Cel didn't wait.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtR3EbTttSY
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1ygvK7Ira
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His left hand reached forward and found nothing but air.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTCoDB6Pg6
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‘Huh?’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAE6hKtTL6G
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZoVwseMRI
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Behind him, crystal scraped against stone.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRigtt8YnXO
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He twisted his head back.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGTNaiJf7e
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2NLUSCWSF
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhXbdARbJa
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Ten feet away. Eight. Six.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1gvzfPjWN
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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—160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbaCj4Cc38A
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It stopped.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXMbdumHFp
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The crowned skull tilted downward. But not at Cel. Past him.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP7gllhBFAL
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Into the chasm.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxkcQblhQt
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SudFKyEZU
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Then it stepped over him.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXYKdff3xv
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqz5fVp5OkE
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It jumped.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7cNqKJp77s
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No hesitation. No pause. Just a simple, decisive leap off the edge and into darkness.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZrShWNpBuA
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The skeleton disappeared. Swallowed by the abyss as if it had never existed.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡphnPrYZk4P
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Silence returned. 160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONTN54peOq
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Cel lay motionless at the precipice, too exhausted to process what he'd just witnessed.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBad4SAGEy
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‘What... what was that?’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezFabXvQYK
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His left arm trembled as he dragged himself forward. Just an inch. Enough to peer over the edge.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpco4nJ5e1
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZHu8tyXgH
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But deep within - far, far below - something else glowed.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsxa8lcd9U
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White light. Not violet.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0vluBhzvi
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It pulsed gently, steady and alive. The rhythm matched something in his chest, a pull he felt in his bones.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4i3kZ0XinP
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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. 160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbOTw1smoW
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9QOfSNq0N
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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.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJ5RuXmX7z
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But that light…160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JnOlpBk8Q
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That light was different.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ79RQ2bSabd
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It felt almost like… hope.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJe5iGuG4V
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