Cel lay at the chasm's edge, staring into the depths.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBND9aO4D4N
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpoivIKkMan
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This light felt... safe.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJ8MXw3o8D
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His cracked lips pulled into something that might have been a smile if his face hadn't been so ruined.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DHdxvVpLA
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'Maybe...'147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMckstDWrHG
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1X8qKP884y
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But that light was unlike everything else in this nightmare.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQ276QoB3c
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And the skeleton had jumped toward it without hesitation.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFL9Do1oik
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'The trial.' The words surfaced distant in his mind. 'Find the moon.'147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmBVyPqdCSi
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqMP6vgl24
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But deep below, where even the crystal-infested creatures were drawn…147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAZ19gYM2F
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Maybe that's where it was.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpKKhE163M
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwcvtODyDO
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It was the only hope he had left.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIA4WwIWNLd
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3w6mHbGtR
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He fell.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBrmxaQTIx
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The air rushed past him. His body tumbled through darkness, too weak to even flail.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRWKwDCeLh
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He slammed into a wide ledge jutting from the chasm wall.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGmlpPhPwG
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ43tZJrIQ5O
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Then his weight settled. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhIYc2Cw0M
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Pain registered distantly - his shoulder, his ribs, something in his back. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJyuuKbwAP
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Cel's fingers twitched against smooth stone. His cheek pressed against crystal, cold seeping through burnt skin.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTC5Zo9jexs
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‘Down.’147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vxOncf5AD
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The word echoed in his skull. Not a choice. A command his body obeyed without consulting his mind.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8I9xZfNjAM
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ17BZBKgI5P
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTDSAk7aw8
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But the pain felt... distant.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYQcMLh14A
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Muffled, like the silence that had swallowed his hearing.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBiHRr0Rbd4
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSgePkozxX
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He kept descending.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwW4tD82hNw
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhV9vKeogpZ
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His breathing steadied. The constant burn in his chest eased. His throat stopped feeling like shredded glass.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4uXN9iYwO
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAzjNvjB8O
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He should be panicking. Should be terrified.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzlg3v3g264
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But he wasn't.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOTu9QtIlWg
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SGabZouyx
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Cel pulled himself onto a wider ledge and paused. His legs shifted beneath him - not crawling now. Walking.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sBqPT83ml
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When had he stood up?147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgIeCOitX7r
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He looked down at his feet, planted firmly on crystal. Looked at his legs supporting his weight without collapsing.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUaw4rxHFa
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A crystal formation beside him caught his reflection, its surface smooth as glass.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcouQTgE3T
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His face stared back at him.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZlE6PhWLE
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvIBLdBcNk
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Cel's hand reached for the next formation. The reflection's hand reached too, matching his movement exactly.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvlLSbGesu
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He kept descending. His body moved with increasing ease, as if the journey required less effort with each step.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSo85sQAJl6
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The reflection followed beside him, its hollow eyes tracking him.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv82ung0Upz
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'Wait… isn't that…?' 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjJykycsE2
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The thought barely surfaced before slipping away. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0Iu8kw3bL
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'What was it again?' 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRj5qFH2WD
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A shiver crawled up his spine. His instincts screamed at him to stop, to look, to remember.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6V4B9IRbC
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But he didn't. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhkJ6hHfaO
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His steps never faltered. His gaze never wavered. Whatever it was, it didn't matter anymore.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfJnUw1FAV
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He focused on the path below. Left hand. Right foot. Down.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2UWDers5DU
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnd7rOqv6Gm
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Cel’s next step found solid ground.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTldKWsWkq
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Since…147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3YfkEtZ0g
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Since when?147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmQew03vSQ
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ebfliYRjg
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHIxNV3JNJy
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A sphere of pure light.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zgu4AXNCJ
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUQSZnsT17
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Bones lay scattered across the floor beneath it - pale fragments studded with violet crystal growths, half-buried in the ground. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYPzxhR8TuO
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He didn't look at them.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRAZzyPKZ5h
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All that existed was the light.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeCi6G6k9B
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‘Beautiful.’147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtleeaXaWdl
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAda7G2zzHe
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmPkZ4HIQf
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Couldn't remember why anything had hurt at all.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJ9bf61eCN
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCd5IXfIPF0
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Another step forward.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4hdncAtHH
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The light pulsed. His heart pulsed with it.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9UKNNswqp
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'The trial...'147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54vdrMenXE
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3qKISDnkP
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But it seemed so distant now. So... unnecessary.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHqYa2aEcf
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Why had he been searching? Why had he fought? This peace had been waiting all along. Just here. Just below.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnshWpK73Gg
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5k3figbP07
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All of it... filling.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgTso54vmT
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Becoming whole.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7LKXf8yyZ
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFEvObbhkOr
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'Home.'147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNoGYxtjZKt
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFl1bggpyCa
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Cel lifted his left hand, fingers extending toward the light.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcDj7ZdoYwW
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTc9X5wj2K
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His knees buckled.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznufMJP50C
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFDaOHN25IT
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His lips curved into a smile.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOOuvTr7vvk
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCcIUZGOhiH
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Only this.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccC6DXGLvL
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Only—147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2wrWgGoPS
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The cavern shook.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKjvJRMZnAG
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The tremor hit with brutal force, violent enough to crack the crystal formations on the walls.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gTXTrN40L
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Cel's hand ripped free from the sphere as he fell sideways.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMfEoDgYpwd
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The warmth vanished instantly, replaced by crushing cold.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzPQ6ro8qv
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His consciousness slammed back into place.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvH76LfOmC
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The pain returned all at once.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJOYDI9kOk
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC65Imo7rP5
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He gasped, lungs heaving like he'd been held underwater.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRVdlqGcVX
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'What—'147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEzHpgIPj7
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLAI2pjRGa
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The sphere hovered before him, pulsing gently. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVUuhBIO9W
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It was beautiful. Inviting.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUkZTjG9uc
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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—147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBhXVm06mTm
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'No.'147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgaxNRxMpr
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7CpY1ZdS63
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'This thing… manipulated me.' The thought arrived with perfect clarity. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VrZp1bjxZ
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But when had it started?147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSg73YHV6t
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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—147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJPDIYxayX
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'Decided what?'147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifCucN9L15
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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?147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDj3FJ4HYZX
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His mind raced backward through fragmented memories.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbpfTBb2eC
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The crystal maze. The spire in the distance - he'd avoided it. Gone the opposite direction every time.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdaugQWAlOu
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Why?147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2DYzwnhGqA
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He'd told himself it looked dangerous. Ominous. Something about it felt wrong.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPpITBqAcPj
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But what if that feeling hadn't been his own?147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1n6aE1usT
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJ3lDkYKGR
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What if none of it had been his choice?147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxE898oR8Bw
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwTm2OdIDQ
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What if it had been guiding him all along? Herding him like cattle toward this exact spot?147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5V4CiFaCTo
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhCd4IEOZP
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Even now - especially now - that warmth pressed against his skin. Gentle. Patient. Waiting for him to reach out again. 147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1hNirEGrL5
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To surrender.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvEqu2Skmrk
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHPmCCI02Z
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Just like everyone who'd ever tried to make him into something less.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCk9ywnQpk
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHnLRcNADV
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His jaw clenched. His fingers curled into fists despite the agony in his right hand.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqXdGWe4fK
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'It almost had me.'147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFf2ORfDKSH
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The sphere pulsed before him. That gentle rhythm matching his heartbeat, trying to align again. Trying to pull him back.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoK5LbmTjuM
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ082sfJAAPV
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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.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpA8xP1A7b
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He turned.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl01b3p0o4I
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A massive head filled his vision.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfoU0RTJTv
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Cel's breath stopped.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYNZhiGgM2s
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Pale, translucent skin stretched over angular bone structure. Violet light burned in hollow eye sockets.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclCeOPZ2B0
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The creature blinked.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMciyqdNg7i
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Slow. Deliberate.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwJrtd4zpI
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Its head tilted slightly, studying him with an intelligence that made his skin crawl. Not animal. Not human.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rLM8RZboi
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Something else entirely.147Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90RCb2Sp2q
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