"Shit!" The word tore from Cel's throat as the ground vanished beneath him. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDYp7Wtqc7
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For one suspended heartbeat, he hung over the void.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoup2ctQ2zA
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Then gravity took him.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXPAwZcGkN
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvN5IhWdVV
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Cel's legs kicked against empty air, finding nothing.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9datik6wwD
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The maw snapped shut.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgaVhXjIC9O
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYz2sPTSZoe
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsTgiCVJjW
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sdcxUYwS5
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He drove it in with everything he had.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9U96tIZem
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjjXrJTi3B
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNEkuWeT98q
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Then the creature moved.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7onfTtgrSx
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGR767PSex
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5V0zi1i1Hx
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Something cracked against his ribs - sharp, sudden, stealing his breath. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrZtiqmwvr
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBp2SveP0U
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCkalw5Mpr2
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Stone cracked against his shoulder. Another caught his hip—122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmMMDpQk1D
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His left hand tore free.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfA9kUyspO
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CIcxR8rui
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBh4q05ubT
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9o2Sc0sXRU
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‘Frostmark.’ The thought came like lightning.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2cT4g8iPq
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He didn't hesitate.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLuzwLAnrN
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Cold exploded through his left palm.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zrJvWrs41
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFxeJdxRpGB
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgQbmbrNwd
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Then something massive struck his skull.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOj2L6s1Il2
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White light exploded behind his eyes. The world spun, tilted, shattered.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKYdxkLy4R
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His consciousness fled.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWfUUcmJeK
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Eventually, pain dragged him back.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlbwypNRuj
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4CHgPsFLo
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vnbPIbQ04
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAP0RNRD60j
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Panic flared. He tried to flex his fingers.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZYolMl3uz9
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Nothing.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYEulD43Lo
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Numb. Dead. Frozen to the hilt.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4sN1P86CfW
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He tried his left hand. His fingers responded, flexing weakly against empty air. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULGne0uifl
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Relief flooded through him. At least one hand still worked.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsadJM9rHC
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrI6kYJ2hG
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9X6YQNtBl
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Understanding followed a heartbeat later, and with it came something very familiar.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONTjiXsO16
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Rage.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiMAfkukSON
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'Fucking worm.' 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGn4x4Z7Pjh
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzqIgXnGUye
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqf96gjNbCB
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Cel's jaw clenched so hard his teeth ached. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqlTIvGwqL
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaYHMz9sB5x
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‘Stupid.’122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0EMpgWUdo8
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhecnOIAsMV
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1qof6klcv
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXOnaD71Pm
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He was alive. The ice hadn't broken.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gRZCEOF6r
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXN0YjeoXiq
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The irony was bitter. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc62vwbmKA0
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFF1Vv59wk
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MqhrNBdwZ
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His throat tightened. He didn't know whether to feel grateful or furious.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9c7i8VUlwd
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpunVAc6x8I
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsVI08kDqj
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6li4z1VasV
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Cel braced himself, then wrenched Silent Moon free from the flesh.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcc2Ghs5T6T
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The blade tore loose with a wet, sucking sound. His stomach lurched as gravity took him. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeI5LvK8A4a
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdNXCRbfsE
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSOJpMvj7b
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdOCsHfbm6
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKAWTQotbmV
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The first blow skidded off at an angle, pain jolting up his wrist. He repositioned, aimed better. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutq5G91hwV
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The second punch landed square - the frost shattered with a sharp crack, fragments scattering across the floor.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4paOdAj3Ul
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBWQWqSOh5
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Cel grabbed Silent Moon with his other hand and pushed himself upright, testing his weight carefully. 122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3qitw4vWA
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He needed to find a way out.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRFSlYnroNA
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzYjrkYQp4
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYoldJkUA0
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That left the mouth.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCif92BL79
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHMOS5uP8a
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His mind turned to Selina. He could enter his soul. Ask for guidance—122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZaGFVeWGb8
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZIQrUZNxr
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So he was trapped. Waiting in a living prison until the creature decided to surface.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6M7NImBn7C
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthrDboiw39
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But the teeth…122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFR4132ga5o
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfxjOeM9xfR
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9FLVDQzHuM
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRljQRtwDF
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The odds were worse.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5COA2yM53X
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Unless…122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1Mf1Tr5gS
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An idea struck. Cold. Brutal. Utterly insane.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNixpmAmJu
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What if the creature had no teeth?122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6MEgLwSgUY
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A grin spread across his blood-crusted face, wild and malicious in the blade's ghostly light.122Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzK4jjjnCRN
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