"Raven!"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcL0X2h68th
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The name echoed down into nothing.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BpnlDdHfT
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Cel stumbled toward the edge - he could jump, follow them down, there had to be—119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGxIJTuHjE
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Something closed around his throat and the world lurched.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8CsdhXaeA7
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His vision swam, legs dangling in empty air. Fingers clawed at a wrist round his throat—how had—?119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fek6iGA26
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When it cleared, she stood before him.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1Lb3MhZZ5
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Esrin Tempvolt.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡop5QriyBU7
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No wings now - vanished as if they'd never existed. Just dark armor, ash-white hair and ruby red eyes.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZuY4RazHOG
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His gaze darted past her. The volcano stood in the distance, a broken silhouette against the crimson sky. The massive creature lay collapsed in its core, smoke rising from its shattered body.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1IZkEfI01
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His eyes snapped back to her. Not a scratch on her armor. Not a drop of sweat. Her breathing was steady, unhurried - like she'd taken a casual walk rather than fought something that could level mountains.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqMUZjTAQm
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"Who are you?" Her voice was flat, emotionless - a demand, not a question.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJik57xBQw
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Cel couldn't breathe. His vision tunneled as pressure built.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwTuHyfKA4
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He forced words through the crushing grip. "Go... away."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07xNsRoICV
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Her expression didn't change.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YlJ000p90
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His hands clawed at her wrist. He reached for Frostmark—119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdjrIsI6yP
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Pain.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjEC2l79XEi
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The world became chaos. Stone. Burning ash. Crimson sky. All of it blurred as he flew through the air before slamming into a dune of ignited ash. The second impact drove him sideways. Third. Fourth. Each collision sent him careening in a new direction, his body ragdolling across the wasteland.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0YSQcuMyN
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Everything went black.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbhd7krll3
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When awareness returned, he couldn't breathe.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjg95fkJUTX
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His chest seized. He tried to inhale - nothing. His body refused. Panic flooded through him as his lungs screamed for air that wouldn't come.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6nMG7ZqOt
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Blood surged up his throat.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiuS4opSuqu
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He rolled onto his side, retching. Hot liquid poured from his mouth, choking him further. His throat worked uselessly, chest heaving in broken rhythm.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCe6COCUd3S
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More blood came up. His vision grayed at the edges.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGV80x1b5Ni
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He clawed at the ash, fingers digging in as his body convulsed again. Another wave of blood. His chest locked tighter.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xG2m6IKZy
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'Breathe—'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mWLSCy6GQ
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Nothing.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxl6TsvcwzZ
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'BREATHE—'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6fUuRnVjjS
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His lungs finally obeyed.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3H9DVYbLa
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Air rushed in - hot, full of ash. But real.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdaPCwYjEcY
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He sucked in desperate, ragged gasps between coughs that brought up more blood.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE9Mf0BnsEs
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Footsteps crunched across burning ash.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvh4azoZ1m
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Not hurrying. Just the slow, inevitable advance of something that knew its prey had nowhere to run.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTojlX695LR
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"Use that power on me again and I'll break every bone in your body before you hit the ground."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEMqTvFGg7
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He sucked in desperate breaths between coughs, blood still hot in his mouth.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzr8M4jkBun
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Esrin was ten steps away. Nine.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0YRr96mNR
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Cel's mind raced. He couldn't fight her. Couldn't run. Couldn't use Frostmark without her killing him before he hit the ground.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNoER307BR
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But there was something else. Something that might—119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAdxw21J3I
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Eight steps.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmD8Q6rrc44
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Cel slammed his fist into the burning ash.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJ4tt3iobK
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Seven steps.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjPOFmflgy
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Again.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6fAlol6HQ
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'Come on.'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbWc4T5H8y
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Six steps.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngEwRPSJpu
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Again. Harder.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOc8HzRxxSH
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'I know you're there!'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBcniDqBK6
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Five steps.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCOQWqOr0p
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The ground beneath him vanished.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXr6NVTBoS
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The Tremorborne erupted in an explosion of ash and stone, its circular maw opening wide as it surged upward with impossible speed.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP7AMw9tE6d
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Cel fell backward into that hungry darkness—119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1naVz40AKf
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And as the maw began to close, as Esrin's expressionless face filled his vision one last time, his lips pulled back from bloodied teeth.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkH0IBKGwpu
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A smile. Savage and defiant.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrOom27ARy
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Then the maw snapped shut and darkness swallowed him once more.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIySkufmPQ
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Esrin's eyes narrowed as the ground sealed itself.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3rb33VPYL
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'His divine energy... I can't sense it at all.'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWsTYKhR8P
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The observation settled in her mind with uncomfortable weight. She'd encountered Chosen who masked their signatures before - but suppressing one's divine energy required absolute mastery. The kind of control that took decades to develop. But even then, it left traces. Ripples in the fabric of reality that marked where power had been suppressed.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsEgWZI7Yj
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This boy had nothing.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTpcCCGOLnh
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As if he simply... didn't exist in that regard.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRObFRvQQmG
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'An artifact?'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bxXQapqsW
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White wings manifested from her back in a cascade of crackling lightning. She rose, ash swirling away from the displacement as she climbed toward the crimson sky.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1AgYuVmAV
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Her glaive materialized in her grip.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdkHvAuqV6Z
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Lightning crackled across the blade - not the white-black energy of before, but something brighter. Purer. The weapon blazed with contained violence that made the air itself hum.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJBB2Y47JW
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She drew back and hurled it.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh7Ik9ATNl4
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The glaive became a streak of blazing white, tearing through the air with a sound like ripping silk.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtqrkWp2ro
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It struck where the Tremorborne had vanished.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqgzTJMLAZ
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Light.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5wiorT4KVt
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Blinding, absolute light that turned the darkness into screaming white.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKRhPBgnbZ
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The shockwave hit first - a wall of pressure that compressed the worm's body inward. Then sound that wasn't sound but pure force translated into noise.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAEztsHDtA
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The Tremorborne's flesh detonated around him.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6Ww5OvgF8
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Chunks of obsidian armor flew outward in all directions. Tissue vaporized. The concentric rings of teeth shattered, fragments spinning away like shrapnel.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzPKW2ztR3
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Cel's body tumbled through the expanding destruction, untouched by the devastation but thrown like a leaf in a storm. His vision was nothing but white. His ears rang with a tone so high it felt like silence.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQdc25rNFPt
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He hit something solid.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxp4lFYYmT
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The impact drove what little air remained from his lungs. His back slammed into stone, his head whipping back—119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2S2dejenw5
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Then stillness.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNbtQyK0JT
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The light faded by degrees. White to gray to the familiar crimson of the Ashlands sky.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuc7miMMDVH
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Cel lay at the bottom of a crater.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkk4qCjQ1UZ
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The walls rose around him in a perfect circle, the stone still smoking from the heat. Ash drifted in the air like snow.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXFVw9eOdn
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He couldn't move.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNQfhp0LEd
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Not from injury - the blast had somehow missed him entirely. But from something deeper. Primal terror that locked every muscle tight, that made breathing feel like an act of will.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cLeFYhEld
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The glaive stood embedded in the ground beside his head.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqItYEhEcmm
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So close he could see the intricate patterns etched into the blade, the way lightning still danced across its surface in fading arcs. Close enough that moving his head a fraction would bring his temple against its edge.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTwxJeOegED
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A shadow fell across him.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxNMf1hY9c
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Esrin descended through the air, wings beating with slow, deliberate grace. Her boots touched down on the scorched stone with barely a whisper, one on either side of his torso.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXoF6YEfrA7
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The white wings dissolved in a cascade of fading lightning, crackling out of existence as if they'd never been.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TfFTx6rYg
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She stood there for a moment, looking down at him with that same flat expression - as if killing a Defiled-rank creature and obliterating everything in a hundred-step radius was simply routine.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAKWqOi4KM
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Cel's chest rose and fell in shallow breaths. His eyes were wide, unblinking. Every instinct screamed to run, to flee, to get away—119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35p7dyPNXP
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But his body refused.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLnvBrdIWD
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Esrin reached down.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9p3W5tntJ
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His eyes tracked her hand, his throat already tightening in anticipation— 119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQr5npFv3T
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She grasped the glaive's hilt.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSmq9QY1ly
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The weapon came free with a soft whisper of steel against stone.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9JSOjBjZHS
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She held it loosely at her side, the blade still crackling with residual energy.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rLtoFa2b1
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"You're wasting my time."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWpZlYlGTwc
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Cel's jaw worked. Blood coated his teeth, his tongue. When words finally came, they scraped like broken glass.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4TYEK81WK
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"Then... leave."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97ffzOJg1G
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Silence answered him.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMCo5vu269O
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Esrin's gaze remained fixed on him, flat and emotionless. Seconds stretched.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGBavGvCGQ
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"What's your name?"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0Mr1ojYx9
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The question came without warning, without context.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTpHB69JqY
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"Celvian."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrggmKf9Tau
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"Your patron god?"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9NYSXBCLL
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His throat tightened. "The Moon Goddess."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2hxsrLikFh
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Her eyes tracked to his snow-white hair, to his glacial-blue eyes, then to the armor covering his battered form.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡketLKtRfDm
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"How old are you?"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZUE43HSbH
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"Sixteen."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeMe4M5r6h4
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For a single heartbeat, the cold assessment in her eyes softened. Not to warmth - but to something that looked like she'd just confirmed a suspicion she'd hoped was wrong.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGkou0rNwd
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"How did a sixteen-year-old Moon Chosen end up in the Hollow Realms?"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1bzRWhF5d
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Cel's fingers dug into scorched stone. The truth would reveal too much - his origin as a noble, his father's betrayal, his year of torture. All of it weakness she could exploit.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9hTF8eCIa
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His jaw clenched as rage flared hot in his chest.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRc8dgDaIU
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They were his to kill. His vengeance. His blood to spill when he grew strong enough to make them scream.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtll0ZJSFz
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But if he could set a Hallowed on them first? Watch them scramble like rats as Esrin Tempvolt tore through their compound? See them taste fear before he came for what remained?119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGot0jiOMos
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The thought settled in his chest like cold satisfaction.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCzjycMmPoH
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"The Children of the Voidmother." His voice came raw. "They threw me through a rift. To seal it."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaqNmVCB3f
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Esrin's expression hardened - the only real emotion he'd seen from her. Her jaw set in a way that suggested this information mattered.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1W7wWb0Vc
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"The cult." Not a question. A statement laced with something cold.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9DvLFl4KRx
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He nodded.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LyKTzWcdW
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Silence stretched again. Esrin remained perfectly still, gaze fixed on him with that same calculating intensity. Weighing. Deciding.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrz6ZPdHHZ
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Cel kept his mouth shut. Every instinct told him that speaking now - saying anything more - would be a mistake. One wrong word and she'd start asking questions he had no safe answers for.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGTsK9jlBMZ
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He couldn't risk that.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ39V1Bp7aKw
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So he stayed silent, even as his body screamed in pain, even as blood continued to drip from his mouth. Waiting for her verdict.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInGruUsupU
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Finally, something in her posture shifted - subtle as a blade finding its sheath.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHbsv6cK0e
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"You're not what I came here for." She dismissed her glaive, lightning crackling once before the weapon dissolved. "But leaving a Chosen to die in the Ashlands serves no purpose."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczw16Fouwn
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The clinical assessment in her tone made it clear this wasn't mercy. Just... efficiency. A waste of resources to let him rot here.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYkOPedXve
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"I'm taking you out of here."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqCCn3gkbQ
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Cel's body went rigid. "I can leave on my own."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlz6zs9ha3t
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He braced his hands against the scorched stone. Every muscle screamed in protest as he forced himself up. His arms shook. His legs threatened to buckle. But he made it - swaying on unsteady feet, refusing to fall.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89WXmKCV6S
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"Can you?" Her gaze swept across his bloodied form. "You can barely stand."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmSaDNs3qif
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"And whose fault is that?"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84KpGjz5sJ
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The words came sharper than intended, edged with pain and defiance.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx83sBJyn7A
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Esrin's expression didn't change. No flicker of guilt, no acknowledgment of what she'd done to him. Just that same flat assessment.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93Kw4AoKMN
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"Mine." The admission came without hesitation or apology - a simple statement of fact. "Which is why I'm not leaving you here to die from it."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKlwTH92E7
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Her hand moved to a pouch at her belt before he could respond. When she withdrew it, something rested in her palm - a flat stone perhaps the size of a coin, covered in symbols that writhed when looked at directly.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09mAGNffCF
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Her fingers closed around it.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyGABSfiAT
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The stone shattered.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2Bxppe3yV
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Not cracked - pulverized. Fragments turned to dust that slipped between her fingers, dissolving before hitting the ground.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBtpq7iMEj
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Violet light erupted from where the stone had been.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB19NrfqVbf
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Cel's eyes widened.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUu2dPTjyv
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A rift tore itself into existence - but wrong. All wrong.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhzTE1iPfBN
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The edges didn't shimmer. They crackled - sharp, violent bursts of energy that fought against their own existence. The violet light bleeding through wasn't steady. It pulsed, writhed, twisted back on itself in patterns that made his eyes water.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3XRaQrWEgf
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'That's not possible.'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcglGye5Ozq
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Creating rifts was impossible. Even for the Hallowed. Rifts were tears in reality that formed naturally, that could only be found and sealed, never created.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz97W18QC8y
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Yet here it stood, crackling with violent energy, defying every law he'd been taught.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wVSfx1YKy
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'She just... she just created a rift.' The thought repeated itself, unable to find purchase against the impossibility before him.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHVZphPI12
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Raven's voice echoed in his memory: 'You can trust her. She will protect you.'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqFoeLavrp1
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Esrin Tempvolt. The woman every noble child had been taught to admire - proof that strength and honor could coexist. The pinnacle of grace and power that young ladies aspired to emulate. 119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06xku6J7xO
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And Raven had been certain. Even knowing she hunted him, he'd told Cel to trust her.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡruwyDlkjWi
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Esrin stepped toward the impossible rift, then glanced back. "Stay close. The passage is disorienting."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1OGU8XEbbX
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Cel stared at her extended hand.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXlyEKI0Vsk
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She'd nearly killed him. Had thrown him across the wasteland like garbage. Had threatened to break every bone in his body.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDB01LCByxD
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But everything Cel had ever learned said the Hallowed were humanity's greatest protectors. That Esrin Tempvolt was someone worth believing in.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxEpQscJgw4
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His fingers closed around hers.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2F95NZESkK
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He had no choice. Fighting Esrin was suicide. Running was impossible. And if Raven had been right about trusting her…119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbt2tkYNVW
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'I'm sorry, Raven.'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPQZ3swQgr
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The thought was brief, nearly drowned by everything else screaming through his mind. But it was there.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBKCmfsINk
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She pulled him forward without hesitation, her grip firm but not painful. They stepped through together.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSOmECyBXQ
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The world inverted.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JcQumVGi9
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Violet light swallowed everything. Up became down became sideways became nothing. Cel's stomach lurched as gravity lost meaning. The only constant was Esrin's hand, anchoring him while reality twisted around them.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5o6vrTSRiV
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Then it stopped.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZcQ2ZJfAdf
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Solid ground materialized beneath his feet.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0tMLzvB8BM
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Cel's vision cleared by degrees.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxO8wEuLnpZ
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They stood on an island of land suspended in—what exactly?119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZNDaX2T7T
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Violet void stretched in every direction - not empty, but crackling with that same violent energy. Lightning arced through the emptiness in branching patterns, illuminating depths that had no bottom.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2x68FNkJMf
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And in the center of the floating land stood a manor.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE5HbjknG3Q
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<You have achieved something extraordinary: You entered a new dimension.>119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrImzHBtljF
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