"Shit!" The word tore from Cel's throat as the ground vanished beneath him. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzZDVBvGWM
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For one suspended heartbeat, he hung over the void.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16QFx5vmaP
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Then gravity took him.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFTpL5EquK
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIX6WcqVvrg
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Cel's legs kicked against empty air, finding nothing.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡopC8y8PYqU
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The maw snapped shut.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6mwZ3faHf
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdn0XILoH7
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjrZDJnDmw
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrpeKtCwmn
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He drove it in with everything he had.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKnzR2teh21
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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. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIOad453ho
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcz3YYRmxtb
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Then the creature moved.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKt5NzPLhPT
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPitShsT8B
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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. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCT0FHQauG
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Something cracked against his ribs - sharp, sudden, stealing his breath. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtlZlsWzIOa
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFur7wStcy1
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUIVCY70VK
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Stone cracked against his shoulder. Another caught his hip—133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmwkV3836P
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His left hand tore free.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3BUi1lUJuu
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNJ0YNwkAk
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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—133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqc5n1964Sh
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOY2sgiQM7e
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‘Frostmark.’ The thought came like lightning.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJggfMeE2sp
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He didn't hesitate.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtQpUxN0JXF
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Cold exploded through his left palm.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkLjPmNxhgI
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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. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpu9zZiMifd
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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. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwqthIdTrs
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Then something massive struck his skull.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡweNJupX7kx
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White light exploded behind his eyes. The world spun, tilted, shattered.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pHz2zzEmw
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His consciousness fled.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuFvEkRCd2
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Eventually, pain dragged him back.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnexrG6ocC
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZM1WBSqXk
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIyWGHB6wYK
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnO8y8nQSUO
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Panic flared. He tried to flex his fingers.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ841DztWtnj
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Nothing.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAx2UmusDV
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Numb. Dead. Frozen to the hilt.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbmRmJHxIP
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He tried his left hand. His fingers responded, flexing weakly against empty air. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡleragNDsEj
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Relief flooded through him. At least one hand still worked.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GVff0MPTS
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KHLUt2KRl
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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—133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1uDhiTYKeE
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Understanding followed a heartbeat later, and with it came something very familiar.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzfZceKwd1
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Rage.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmZX9fWUYZ
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'Fucking worm.' 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcD6uzxT4F
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He'd thought himself lucky when the creature passed after devouring the fleeing one. Thought he'd simply gone unnoticed. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjojR2VC8ik
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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. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqE09BeByM6
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Cel's jaw clenched so hard his teeth ached. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1IDqnKVgS
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWLjbFIxsV
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‘Stupid.’133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE98pjyzBRM
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcNA9tekeb
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOk8mMSOdOG
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqm9qP9bXM
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He was alive. The ice hadn't broken.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnogWgwDR6t
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfixiMkj7oF
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The irony was bitter. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyd6T2xyGs
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ07sdiK1uP
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo592OdID9Y
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His throat tightened. He didn't know whether to feel grateful or furious.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3wrh58ag5
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A faint, rhythmic sound vibrated through the flesh around him. The creature's breathing, perhaps. Or its heartbeat. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDyMojF7UF
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He couldn't stay here. Hanging blind in the creature's gullet while frostbite ate through his hand.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZoCFQVqd9J
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpgmWcqwV0
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Cel braced himself, then wrenched Silent Moon free from the flesh.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd10l5FGO21
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The blade tore loose with a wet, sucking sound. His stomach lurched as gravity took him. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIeL3DdsQ4
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He dropped through the darkness. Two seconds. Three. Long enough for panic to claw at his chest before— 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Q9ON1CEnd
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHzJk1iv5O
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vL7yjj4wK
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Cel braced the hilt against the ground and slammed his left fist into the ice encasing his right hand. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6lubm6XCZ
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The first blow skidded off at an angle, pain jolting up his wrist. He repositioned, aimed better. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCim5CFRXnV
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The second punch landed square - the frost shattered with a sharp crack, fragments scattering across the floor.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMAFs4UNdV
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLfgA8ObQN
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Cel grabbed Silent Moon with his other hand and pushed himself upright, testing his weight carefully. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0DnYKeLyWJ
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He needed to find a way out.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0KyonxyXlH
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87qQvGfXev
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAT8kO9zk4Y
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That left the mouth.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXwalOkPeQG
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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?133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhyniOnrQD
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His mind turned to Selina. He could enter his soul. Ask for guidance—133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCcnFlznOl
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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQt3TleW2yV
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So he was trapped. Waiting in a living prison until the creature decided to surface.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrbcONFfyl
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His only chance came when it opened its mouth on its own. To hunt. To breathe. Whatever these things did.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5B6p1WZzD
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But the teeth…133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHY4iafGXs1
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Cel's gaze swept across the throat again, and something white gleamed near. He squinted through the dim light.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqyRgEzEW9
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A tooth. As tall as he was, maybe taller. Curved like a scimitar, serrated along its inner edge.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5B4HW5hpm
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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?133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHshzkdmDNT
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The odds were worse.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12ARo7MuN6
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Unless…133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YE7C67YnH
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An idea struck. Cold. Brutal. Utterly insane.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeP4EaYweXV
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What if the creature had no teeth?133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHOTUMfmWKp
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A grin spread across his blood-crusted face, wild and malicious in the blade's ghostly light.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8yF7aHHaI0
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