"Shit!" The word tore from Cel's throat as the ground vanished beneath him. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtaw4OJhMED
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For one suspended heartbeat, he hung over the void.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNsk4OBung
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Then gravity took him.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFEsPKkzMq
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAkRW7kXpr
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Cel's legs kicked against empty air, finding nothing.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxs6YD7KFZ
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The maw snapped shut.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZjDEWHsPb
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2k27iK8BUI
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZ3GW8HSkR
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKcZO5DNS9r
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He drove it in with everything he had.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjOgN6uap9V
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5r2hzxWzL
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtYZ911Bbui
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Then the creature moved.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKDaVTl3M9
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9S1C2jaI4M
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyURmHpyiBN
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Something cracked against his ribs - sharp, sudden, stealing his breath. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLoPiD4yC4e
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwugLohkFrl
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz4OxoRSHxW
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Stone cracked against his shoulder. Another caught his hip—122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCcXr4fWmH
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His left hand tore free.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSSXNKX3Bo
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtRLPVuZVd
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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—122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfoCWWAinus
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFHLPxkfJz
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‘Frostmark.’ The thought came like lightning.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7dniyN4fn
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He didn't hesitate.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3feDq5xLhq
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Cold exploded through his left palm.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJ4OMERiG2
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxdbstZggM3
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLFHDSrSB9
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Then something massive struck his skull.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVV8lnW5P3M
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White light exploded behind his eyes. The world spun, tilted, shattered.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGlOWM4uhs
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His consciousness fled.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmw04vX0xuq
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Eventually, pain dragged him back.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpIPSxzIuV
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7W66Vj4D2
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXm9h7HCEN
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AgI4vygj0
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Panic flared. He tried to flex his fingers.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMHrEYnPLN
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Nothing.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9T6STc2dEr
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Numb. Dead. Frozen to the hilt.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3YhdCky8T
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He tried his left hand. His fingers responded, flexing weakly against empty air. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg3UHGmj81H
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Relief flooded through him. At least one hand still worked.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6AxAQyZHP
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJ6ZmfqhPN
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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—122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXhyPVcm6b
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Understanding followed a heartbeat later, and with it came something very familiar.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCeJlAXkrmu
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Rage.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOiqaiZXkt
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'Fucking worm.' 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxjIo7zNxNz
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He'd thought himself lucky when the creature passed after devouring the fleeing one. Thought he'd simply gone unnoticed. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKzIbi7nEr
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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. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3W0V84IrbE
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Cel's jaw clenched so hard his teeth ached. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg14aU4nrda
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkr5BOQLD1
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‘Stupid.’122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LpbDkuD0I
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfB8vVhlIN
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzLqdQBtK1
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb37zdoSTbH
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He was alive. The ice hadn't broken.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjrfmJCwsUc
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVayBm0KAP
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The irony was bitter. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdMr793gMt4
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLCDUxUxhqH
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGWAiHoSs46
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His throat tightened. He didn't know whether to feel grateful or furious.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYF3RkV2oA
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A faint, rhythmic sound vibrated through the flesh around him. The creature's breathing, perhaps. Or its heartbeat. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8O3Gg05Pb9
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He couldn't stay here. Hanging blind in the creature's gullet while frostbite ate through his hand.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcAZ9UqZQv
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75IGGJZjNk
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Cel braced himself, then wrenched Silent Moon free from the flesh.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqCgcjPjaY
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The blade tore loose with a wet, sucking sound. His stomach lurched as gravity took him. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhNp9uI1cb
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He dropped through the darkness. Two seconds. Three. Long enough for panic to claw at his chest before— 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaa57yCMOez
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJsbk2Jmph
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5VE4hDTet
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Cel braced the hilt against the ground and slammed his left fist into the ice encasing his right hand. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7g360RvMA4
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The first blow skidded off at an angle, pain jolting up his wrist. He repositioned, aimed better. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97phNcb0fC
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The second punch landed square - the frost shattered with a sharp crack, fragments scattering across the floor.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6rvvmn4CQ
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VxYNfwFev
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Cel grabbed Silent Moon with his other hand and pushed himself upright, testing his weight carefully. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00hdBeGNLF
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He needed to find a way out.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGJonxdDjc
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8RquOPT17
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehXL7EIrix
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That left the mouth.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YOXsDNR9T
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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?122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOyWknY04i
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His mind turned to Selina. He could enter his soul. Ask for guidance—122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoPZmdwtfrj
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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.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9lnmCl6cDY
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So he was trapped. Waiting in a living prison until the creature decided to surface.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtA50QTDWod
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His only chance came when it opened its mouth on its own. To hunt. To breathe. Whatever these things did.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yBru4B8qI
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But the teeth…122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVejdmSfjuK
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Cel's gaze swept across the throat again, and something white gleamed near. He squinted through the dim light.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfv8Quri6S
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A tooth. As tall as he was, maybe taller. Curved like a scimitar, serrated along its inner edge.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMtzOWLZz5T
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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?122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yE6Zh1EEC
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The odds were worse.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRODqvdrUSh
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Unless…122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSuOXd7S9J
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An idea struck. Cold. Brutal. Utterly insane.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuzR67nNNZ7
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What if the creature had no teeth?122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdm9Ia6xJoM
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A grin spread across his blood-crusted face, wild and malicious in the blade's ghostly light.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiAwacuuXr9
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