Cel stood and lifted Silent Moon higher, letting its pale radiance push back the darkness. The blade's four glowing crescents cast enough light to see perhaps ten steps in any direction.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEqdmV6lXlU
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He began walking the perimeter of the throat, mapping what he was truly dealing with.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHcRXUy3n2
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His breath caught.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzrnRBKmzbA
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Teeth. Dozens of them in the first ring alone. Perhaps hundreds total.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KopWo4AKU
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They ringed the maw's entrance in concentric rows that stretched back into shadow, each tooth a curved blade of bone as tall as he stood.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡch02c5KYOB
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Slipping through them by chance as he fell was one thing. Forcing his way through deliberately while the creature was awake and aware?118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOs9NxWZDY
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Cel's jaw tightened as he studied the formation. The outer ring was densest - teeth packed so close together a child couldn't squeeze between them. But further in, toward where he stood, the spacing grew wider. The creature's throat, it seemed, was less concerned about things trying to escape from within.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrwbOnOJmQ
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His gaze tracked from tooth to tooth, counting. Estimating. Each one would need to be loosened from its socket, carved free from the flesh that held it. One by one. With a single working hand.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1QpNqt2Ste
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The enormity of the task settled over him like a weight.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpIAK1O4qv
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"Let's get started then." His voice sounded strange in the close space - flat, swallowed by organic walls.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVoSUrdH4C
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He approached the nearest tooth, running his left hand along its smooth outer curve. Almost polished. The serrations on the inner edge looked sharp enough to shred flesh.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKxiHT9hwW
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The tooth curved inward, its base disappearing into a socket of yielding flesh. That's where he'd need to cut. Sever the connections. Loosen it enough to pull free.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyatJKPrP5
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Cel adjusted his grip on Silent Moon's hilt, positioning the blade's point near the gumline. A chokutō was built for thrusting - straight, single-edged, perfect for driving deep into flesh. If he had both hands, this would be simple. Quick, even.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpLUytIQu8
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But his right hand dangled uselessly at his side. Dead weight. The frostbite had taken it completely.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUtNOAjEo4
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He'd have to do this one-handed.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVm9uJe2O9P
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The blade's tip found purchase against yielding flesh. Cel drove it in.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6RsvVurn5
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Steel met resistance - flesh and muscle pushing back - yet his uncontrolled strength forced the blade deeper than intended. Silent Moon's entire length disappeared into the socket before he could stop himself, his hand slamming into the base where tooth met flesh. Blood exploded outward, spraying across his chest in a hot wave.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWC9NOPjPv
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Cel jerked back, startled. He'd meant to probe carefully, to work the blade in gradually.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa86DE4D6CZ
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Instead, he'd just buried it to the hilt in a single motion.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOykFFzcYE
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'Too much strength again.'118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRukbM2zIB
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But unlike the practice swings where control mattered, where balance determined everything - here, raw power was exactly what he needed. There was no finesse required. No technique. Just destruction.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCEwkTOZsY
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He wrenched Silent Moon free and repositioned. Then drove it in from a different angle.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVWBskMBPx
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The blade punched through meat and scraped against bone with a grinding sound that made his teeth ache. He twisted the hilt, using the leverage to carve away the connective tissue. Blood poured from the wound in thick streams.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcQRmIZDlJ
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The creature didn't react. No spasm. No sound. Just the steady rhythm of its breathing continuing unchanged, as if he were nothing more than an irritating insect.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwY2bN4ghJI
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Good. Let it stay ignorant.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDuSlaJzXq3
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Cel worked methodically now, driving Silent Moon in from different angles around the tooth's base. Each thrust went deep - deeper than he intended, deeper than he could control. But it didn't matter. Every wild, uncontrolled strike tore away more of the socket's hold.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4PnPg7zfS
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The work was going faster than he'd expected. Much faster.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VYxXv7W7K
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After perhaps twenty thrusts - maybe thirty - the tooth shifted.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ayf7ECQ08
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Not slightly. Not a gentle loosening.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqPhgTioc9
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It lurched in its socket, suddenly free on one side, listing like a tree about to fall.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NKDxcipm8
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Cel gripped the tooth's base where it jutted from the socket and pulled.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YRrOh1fDU
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Nothing. The tooth held fast, still anchored on one side.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqL41o1fWPf
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He braced his feet against the slick floor and threw his weight backward. Muscles strained. The tooth resisted, grinding against bone and tissue that refused to release.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCN5ohDXCy5
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Cel snarled and pulled harder.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyX5bykjZch
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The socket tore free with a wet, ripping sound flesh giving way all at once. The sudden release sent him stumbling backward as the tooth's weight shifted.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3UPjzL43Nr
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The fang hit the floor with a meaty thud.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYPpb8T0ReH
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One tooth done.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPw3c2sjIXI
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He stared at it for a moment, then looked up at the rows still remaining.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabb6Auqv3E
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'That wasn't so bad.' 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAfkoY9Dph
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The realization settled over him slowly. Yes, there were dozens more. Maybe hundreds. And yes, he only had one working hand.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLg31X1UuRC
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But he was strong now. Far stronger than he'd ever been. Strong enough that raw power could substitute for skill, for precision, for everything he lacked.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZUKoIvrAd
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This was doable.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvg7puSmux
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His throat worked in a dry swallow, pulling him back to immediate concerns. When had he last had water? Not since his resurrection. Time blurred together, but his body knew - knew from the way his tongue felt thick and papery, from the way even swallowing hurt. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mlKTplw5A
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He needed water. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡad8qGyQxIJ
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But there was no water here. Just blood, bile and—118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6ZF3d9V2Q
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His gaze dropped to the shattered frost fragments scattered across the floor. The ice that had saved his life earlier.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDw5DyN4INq
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'Frostmark creates ice.' The thought arrived slowly, fighting through dehydration's fog.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIjUPikgId
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And ice was frozen water.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBw2Ut1QZoa
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Cel pressed his left palm against the organic floor.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwusYBQGdw
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Cold erupted beneath his hand. The familiar burning sensation - vicious and sharp - raced up his arm as frost spiraled outward in delicate patterns. The tissue beneath crystallized instantly, forming a perfect circle of ice.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0OEKia13yG
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He pulled his hand away, fingers aching from the cold, and stared at what he'd created.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPonHsXvpV
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Frost. Beautiful and intricate.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVJfYgxmWI
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Edible?118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrkTwlV7AW
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His stomach churned at the thought. But what choice did he have?118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqazvZPo9CE
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Cel reached down and broke off a chunk of the frost. It came away with a sharp crack, the fragment glittering pale blue in Silent Moon's light.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStMo7Ao7BE
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He brought it to his mouth. Hesitated.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpd0rfpuP7y
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Then bit down.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VNJWGWR8e
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The sound was obscenely loud - a crunching crack that echoed off the ribbed walls. Like biting into thick glass. The ice was hard, dense, requiring real force to break between his teeth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ3Mz8IGkHJ
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But it broke.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZaDqGqoTC
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Cold flooded his mouth - sharp and immediate, spreading across his tongue without melting. He chewed carefully, breaking the fragments down smaller and smaller. The ice didn't dissolve like normal frost would. He had to grind it between his teeth until the pieces were small enough to swallow safely.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9l6TMmfpoV
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He chewed carefully, feeling the fragments crack and crunch. Then swallowed.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2APcCmFdLJ
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The cold traced a path down his throat, settling in his stomach with surprising weight. Not water exactly. But close enough. Real enough.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvJLQEJ55u
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Cel stared at the remaining frost on the floor, then at his left hand.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OhjbVKa30
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'It works.'118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotirvs06cm
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Relief crashed through him so intensely his vision blurred. He could make water. Whenever he needed it. However much he needed.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTKuTy5GWJ
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The authority he'd dismissed as useless had now saved his life twice. First by anchoring him during the creature's violent descent. Now by providing the one thing that separated survival from death by dehydration.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4eG0L2BbN
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His throat tightened with something that might have been shame.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcu2wsxFhwt
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"I'm sorry," he whispered to the darkness. To the moon he couldn't see. To the goddess who'd granted him power he'd been too blind to appreciate. "I'm sorry I underestimated your gift."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YYj6AjJ5w
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The words felt inadequate. Hollow. But they were all he had.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGD9snwBS3Y
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Cel ate more frost, methodically breaking off chunks and crunching them down until his mouth no longer felt like sandpaper. Until swallowing didn't hurt.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6HIkmKLW6
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When he finished, he stood, testing his legs. Steadier now. The frost had restored something vital.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk4lgUcJ8oG
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But his stomach twisted with a different kind of emptiness. Hunger. Sharp and demanding.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvMhi3TqHX
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His gaze drifted across the organic floor. The ribbed walls. The pulsing tissue that surrounded him.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZFKoiVBki2
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All of it was flesh. Meat. Raw, certainly. Probably disgusting.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xbk76KtMo
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But edible.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFA1P0fgjM
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The thought arrived with crystalline clarity, and with it came a hysterical laugh that bubbled up from somewhere dark and twisted in his chest.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0NOZrRx4y
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He'd spent a year eating rotting meat crawling with maggots. Meat so far gone it barely qualified as organic matter anymore. He'd choked it down, vomited it back up, forced it down again until his body learned to accept poison as sustenance.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGfhk6XRD6
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Compared to that?118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMYj7f4HTI
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Fresh meat was practically a delicacy.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEuI8FLi6R3
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Cel carved a thin strip from the wall near the tooth's empty socket. The meat came away easily under Silent Moon's edge, warm and slick. He held it up in the blade's pale light, watching it glisten.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHISE5LVXD
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His stomach turned. Not from the sight - he'd seen worse. But from what he was about to do.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTiicKvK76
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He put it in his mouth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWSBWXGHI4
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Nothing. No taste at all. Just texture - soft, yielding, oddly smooth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKu9YGWWqE
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He chewed. The flesh gave way between his teeth - easier than the frost fragments, but still requiring effort to break down. Warm. Wet. The consistency of... nothing he could compare to. Nothing he'd ever eaten willingly.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1oXsIzQzU
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His throat convulsed. The gag reflex hit hard, muscles spasming as his body tried to reject what he was forcing into it.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNEPFh7DsWt
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Cel clenched his jaw, breathing hard through his nose. Forced his throat to relax. Swallowed.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGDNaTx89d
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The meat went down.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OmEsOIYZA
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His stomach lurched. Rebelled. For a heartbeat he was certain it would come back up, that he'd vomit everything onto the floor and waste the effort.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGCDqU5rea
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But his body remembered. Remembered a year of training, of learning to accept the unacceptable. The nausea peaked, held... then slowly receded.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjAmcdoQoE
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He stood there gasping, bent forward. Waiting. Watching for the inevitable rejection.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHNmGm7dLgr
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But it didn't come.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGc69zelTiI
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Cel stared at the walls surrounding him. An entire creature's worth of food. Enough to sustain him for weeks if he could stomach it.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzHWsEZ8ba
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He carved another strip from the wall and took a bite. Chewed. Swallowed. Gagged again - less violently this time - but kept it down.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaegFjzXBre
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A third bite. Fourth. Fifth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsoORV11ft
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By the tenth, the gagging had nearly stopped. His body was adapting, accepting this new reality the way it had accepted every other horror he'd forced upon it.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnedEgWGlPt
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When he finished the strip, Cel cut another. Then another. He ate methodically, without pleasure or disgust. Just the mechanical process of fuel entering his body.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjU9Hh8yvL
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Finally, when his stomach felt uncomfortably full, he stopped. Wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLNNcMBhkj
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"Right then." His voice was steadier now. Stronger. "Back to work."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnf8WnmR7DW
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He approached the second tooth, blade in hand.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLi0uz7OXP
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Cel positioned Silent Moon at the tooth's base and drove it in deep.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡik9lPYQP5S
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The blade punched through flesh and scraped bone. He wrenched it free and drove it in again from a different angle, carving away the connective tissue.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6JnQgoTt3
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It went faster than the first tooth. His movements fell into rhythm - drive, wrench, reposition.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjX5DebzEkk
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The second tooth crashed to the floor. Then the third.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqqFZemroZ
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By the fourth tooth, something had shifted. His mind had narrowed to this single task - nothing else existed except the tooth before him and the blade in his hand.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj71opn2VpI
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He glanced at Silent Moon between strikes.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZNQdM8aZm
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Six crescents glowed along its length now. Two more than before.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXBAJQQGOE
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The blade felt different. When he drove it into the fifth tooth's socket, the steel slid through tissue like it wasn't there. What had met resistance before now carved freely. Silent Moon had grown sharper.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIcaQBMRGe
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So the trait reacted with sharpness. The more crescents ignited, the keener the edge became.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWNruR8hgZ
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Each tooth fell faster than the last. His strikes remained wild and uncontrolled, but the blade carved through flesh as if it weren't there.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGbZIDg62V
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The gap in the outer rings grew visible. Real progress.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCzCX17zbR
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Time became meaningless in the darkness.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOYgEFt3jH
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Tenth. Fifteenth. Twentieth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3HbkrDI7l
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His left hand bled where the hilt's friction had worn through skin. His right remained dead weight. Sweat and blood coated him. But he kept moving.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBodBTCoVn
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How long had he been working? Hours? Days?118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4aPAYDrRqp
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The gap was clear now - wide enough to slip through if the creature opened its mouth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7HWjJS2aa
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But dozens more teeth remained.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI5NovSU8MG
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He turned toward the twenty-first tooth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9w4IxbJtr
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Exhaustion pressed down on him - heavy and insistent. His left hand throbbed where the skin had worn away. His arm ached from endless repetition. But beneath it all, his body remained vital. Strong. The divine resurrection had rebuilt him into something that could endure this.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEteT9smzon
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A year ago, half this work would have killed him.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyJMGxY8l2
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Now? He could keep going.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeoG1V9zY2l
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Gratitude flickered through his chest - brief but genuine. This body - this gift - would not break easily.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vpSaxtOlo
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He raised Silent Moon. Six crescents burned steadily along its length.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRv5Vt9RxzO
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He positioned the blade and drove it in.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sqcjrJnzP
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Steel punched through flesh. He wrenched it free, repositioned—118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmC9IF18ZBm
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