Cel's hand froze mid-thrust, blade still buried in the tooth's socket.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uTKcxT2y0
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Another tremor. The walls around him contracted slightly, muscle tensing beneath slick tissue.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoOdzUOxeN
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'Shit.'133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYkHhjDp4zY
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It was waking up.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxuKcNaOS3z
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He wrenched Silent Moon free and scanned the darkness, mind racing. The plan he'd formulated while carving teeth - what to do if the creature woke - crystallized with sudden urgency. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmLPK99j3e
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The nearest empty socket gaped perhaps three steps away, a hollow wound in the creature's flesh where he'd torn free a tooth. Dark. Deep enough to wedge himself in.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOvZLPoWFN
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Cel dismissed Silent Moon with a thought. The blade dissolved into moonlight threads that unraveled and vanished, plunging him into absolute darkness. His left hand shot out, fingers finding the slick floor, using touch alone to orient himself.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzmInJldT1
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Three steps. He counted them in his mind as he scrambled forward on hands and knees.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1q7nv7EKsI
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The floor bucked beneath him.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPnJRDU74Z
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With purposeful motion, the creature surged forward. Cel's body pitched sideways as the throat tilted at a steep angle.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7WgyJFP11i
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His fingers found the socket's edge.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqETkzMOy9A
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Without hesitation, he pulled himself up and into the hollow wound. Wet flesh yielded around him as he squeezed into the space where bone had once anchored. The socket was deeper than expected - he had to wedge himself in completely, pressing his back against one side while his knees dug into the other.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHeK1jIDymU
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Barely enough room. But enough.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcOEs0cUWa
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The walls contracted around him.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MhUzHDXC3
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Pressure built from all sides as the creature's muscles tensed, squeezing the socket closed like a fist. The meat pressed against his chest, his shoulders, his skull - not crushing, but confining. Holding him in place with suffocating firmness.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRjVoQZVnv
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Cel forced himself to breathe slowly through his nose. Unease clawed at the edges of his thoughts, but he shoved it down.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBYx7hMkal
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'Why did it wake?'133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3rq7yTZ8D
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Had it finally noticed the missing teeth? Felt the wounds in its jaw and realized something was wrong?133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKz4khgh6Z
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Or was this unrelated? Had it simply finished digesting its previous meal and decided to hunt again?133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQb1wt7fMl
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The creature dove.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnrsxbabqV
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The motion was immediate and violent - a massive lunge that sent Cel's stomach lurching. His body compressed further into the socket as momentum pressed him backward, the flesh around him flexing and shifting with each powerful movement.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZFQi80i2L
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Through stone. Through earth. The same terrifying descent he'd experienced before, except now he wasn't dangling by a frozen hand.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyA629EpPn2
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The teeth he'd carved free tumbled past his hiding spot. Their weight was insignificant to the creature, but Cel heard them clattering down the throat like massive dice thrown by something vast and indifferent.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBze6LWWGul
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Debris began to flow - stone fragments, packed earth , ash torn loose by the creature's passage through the Ashlands. All of it funneled through the open maw in a deadly stream, whistling past the socket where Cel pressed himself as flat as possible.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bf7bl4XPe
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A chunk of stone struck the tooth next to his hiding spot with a crack that made his ears ring. Another grazed the socket's edge, so close he felt the displaced air against his face.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhxoyMhPQs
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But he was safe.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoJuZUnlzTK
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Hidden in this hollow he'd created, protected by the very flesh he'd wounded.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIx8Xy4Lms1
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The creature twisted violently, spiraling through some obstacle. Cel's world became pure sensation - pressure from all sides, the sickening lurch of his stomach as gravity lost meaning, the thunder of debris cascading through the throat around him.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJg5u2jxkW
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His ribs ached where the socket walls compressed them. His left hand throbbed where the hilt's friction had worn through skin. Even breathing required conscious effort as the confining space limited how deeply his lungs could expand.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxR1GZL7sr
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But compared to hanging by a frozen hand while debris battered his skull?133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iKkLZ4ng5
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This was luxury.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjGjEfpdDJ
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Time stretched. The journey felt endless - the creature diving deeper, then leveling out, then diving again in patterns Cel couldn't predict or understand.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVXj1u8P2c
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His mind drifted to the question he'd been avoiding. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LxeGlyNHw
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'What happens when it surfaces?'133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2N53weGHX
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The creature would open its mouth eventually. To breathe. To hunt. To do whatever massive predators did when they emerged from their lairs.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUO0T9s5NeZ
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And when that happened, he'd have his chance.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCstcVqkfW
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The gap he'd carved was wide enough now. Not comfortable, not safe - but passable. He could squeeze through those remaining teeth if he was careful. If he was fast.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFJl2dmxJZ
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If luck favored him for once in this cursed realm.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfFyn3w8iq
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But should he try?133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKpcTNWbJ75
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He could stay. Carve out more teeth - another ten, maybe twenty. Make the gap wider, safer. Or use the time differently. Master the strength he couldn't yet control. Learn to wield Silent Moon properly.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbXWAxKq2B
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The thought had its appeal.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LQhn0zoq4
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As crazy as it sounded, he had everything here. Meat from the walls whenever hunger struck. Ice from Frostmark whenever thirst clawed at him. Safety from every possible threat that prowled the Ashlands above.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCW0GM7T7ds
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He could wait. Survive. Endure until... what?133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlvUijuI2g
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'Until I perfect my technique? Until the worm dies of old age? Until I go mad from living in darkness?'133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNuTRxv29m
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No.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyupIS7x6j
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His jaw clenched.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjH5HVVyCt
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He hadn't survived a year of torture, hadn't endured the crystal maze's horrors, hadn't destroyed his own reflection and died beneath the moon - all just to rot away hiding in a worm's mouth.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlN3UI2TbT2
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The creature had given him shelter, yes. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVt5NhDYUK
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But this wasn't living.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6s2USLSSA
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This was another kind of prison. Darker than the cell. Wetter than the cultists' stone floors. But a prison nonetheless.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYUwRHu0l9
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And he was done with prisons.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxl6w2XDci7
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When the creature surfaced, he would run. Escape through the gap he'd carved with his own blood and blade. Take his chances with whatever waited in the Ashlands rather than rot in this living tomb.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7SGiCVj79
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The decision settled over him like armor.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv795WPOjoG
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Not because escape was safe. Not because his odds were good.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuF6F2BHvP9
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But because his father still drew breath. Because Darian still wore the family crest. Because his mother still pretended she'd been helpless. Because the cultists still walked free. Every moment spent cowering in this living tomb was another moment they lived unpunished for what they did.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIY6nxoWFe4
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The thought was unbearable.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1y7OupgW7
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His fingers curled against the socket's flesh, nails digging in slightly.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH5UROPDeif
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'I'm coming for you. All of you.'133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOk3bES2lD
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The creature's movement began to change. The diving motion shifted to something more horizontal. Leveling out.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVdqSmd8AR4
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Rising.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4BYSoUw4Hk
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Cel's heart hammered against his ribs. His entire body tensed despite the confining space.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8hB6apoAM
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The ascent felt different - smoother, more controlled. Not the violent plunge he'd experienced before. Just the steady rise of something ancient and assured.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwFjg5m7lD
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Muscles coiled tighter with each passing moment. His left hand flexed, testing his grip despite having nothing to hold. His legs pressed harder against the socket walls, ready to push off the instant freedom appeared.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4BwFUzTZX
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The pressure around him shifted as the throat angled upward more steeply.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EoTqRjA7B
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Then they broke through.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZ1UsVdsfO
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Cel felt it through the flesh surrounding him - the massive jaw unhinging, circular muscles relaxing their death grip. Faint light filtered through the gaps between teeth, growing brighter as the opening widened.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYNcnY3qeEW
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Silver light.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkedl7yoGx
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Moonlight.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2sP7f4ZbQ
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The realization struck him a heartbeat before the sensation did.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhA9mtwosB
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Something ignited in his chest - not burning, not painful, but spreading. Like liquid lightning replacing blood in his veins. The exhaustion that had been pressing down on him lifted, simply gone, as if someone had cut the strings of a puppet and replaced them with something that didn't break.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYqEUjBY5z
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His muscles didn't feel stronger. They felt eager. Ready. Like they'd been sleeping and had just woken hungry.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVdg2DL0xf
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Lunar Vigor.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTonfCSESp
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The moon was nearly full.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDgLLTYFn6
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Cel's lips pulled back from his teeth in a feral grin.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDuaPUHnG2
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The maw yawned wider - light flooding in, bright enough now that he could see the throat's ribbed walls, the remaining teeth like pillars framing the exit to freedom.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLtOHcmDMcy
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And in the center of it all, something fell through the opening.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2WOd8ECHy
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Fast. Thrashing. Screaming.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFt3C5IB4NY
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A smaller creature - stone-like skin and too-long arms - tumbled into the maw in a tangle of limbs. Its eyeless head whipped side to side, needle teeth flexing in panic as it realized where it had landed.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHiMvGNguA
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The maw snapped shut.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOZ2kHPUGT
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Darkness slammed back down like a fist. The silver moonlight vanished behind rows of teeth, leaving only the faintest ghostly glow filtering through the gaps.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjlq1xesVz
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Cel froze in his socket, heart hammering, every muscle still coiled to spring—133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVfnNWyJyT
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A wet tearing sound, the scrape of claws on flesh, then a shriek - high and piercing, metal dragged across bone.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uSdLYat9G
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Through the dying light, Cel glimpsed movement - a silhouette thrashing wildly. One of its grotesquely long arms was torn away, spinning through the air before disappearing into the stomach below.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jtB9ABABD
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But instead of sliding down with it, the creature caught itself. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFR02HfZIJ
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Its remaining claws sank deep into the throat's walls - into the gap where Cel had carved away the teeth.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpvlspL6kDw
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If those teeth had still been there, the creature would have been shredded. Ground between hundreds of interlocking bone pillars as it tumbled toward the stomach - just like the other creature before. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnyj2wEnwz
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But Cel had removed the grinder.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOdfAI68h3R
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Created a gap wide enough to slip through.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6unKyESUiX
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It shrieked again, louder, and began tearing at the flesh that held it - ripping, clawing, destroying everything within reach in blind animal panic.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ekpGtsu8n
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Blood sprayed. The throat convulsed.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlfelS9TCcv
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Cel pressed himself deeper into the socket as the violence exploded around him.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFFNumAiT0A
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He couldn't summon Silent Moon. The socket squeezed too tight - there wasn't room to wield a blade. His arms were pinned. His legs compressed.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUPEcBIXE2
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And even if he could fight—133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuVBmftXP4
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The worm's entire body shuddered.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVC8GcofOCE
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Massive. Violent.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUgjoBSirKj
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The pain from the smaller creature's claws had finally registered. The predator that had swallowed stone and earth without reaction, that hadn't even noticed twenty missing teeth, was writhing from wounds carved into its inner flesh.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9svpmU5Qlx
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The throat contracted. Expanded. Contracted again in peristaltic waves that tried to force the prey deeper, to crush it, to end the assault.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TjrR0LRmf
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But the creature held fast, shrieking and tearing with renewed frenzy.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcesCKv4jUq
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Cel's world became chaos. He was thrown against one side of the socket, then the other, as the worm thrashed. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoKzRpCxN7
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The smaller creature's violence echoed through the darkness in layers of sound - shrieks, wet tearing, the grind of claws on flesh.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG03OJL7CnI
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Fighting now would be suicide. Blind. Squeezed. While two creatures battled around him.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfIdWPYMzy
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So Cel did the only thing he could.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ40JXc3XS11
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He held on. Pressed himself into the socket's flesh. Made himself small, still, invisible.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaE57pLdhF2
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And waited.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7dxL8VlD4
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The worm's movement changed.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZLlUqxg1s
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Rising again.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmsZxPQ3tm
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Fast.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp050Urr1l0
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The throat tilted sharply as the creature rocketed upward. Acceleration hammered through Cel's body. The smaller creature shrieked, claws tearing frantically at flesh.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3707FoygyI
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Then they broke through.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaOS7l14pZ
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The maw flew open.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4mU1PWKMm
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Heat rolled up from below - thick, chemical, wrong. The kind of heat that didn't come from fire but from something older. Something that dissolved rather than burned.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsxxQbDXjo
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Red light ignited in the depths of the worm’s throat.
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