"Raven!"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgi9uNoRzCi
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The name echoed down into nothing.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQNDkoZTy4n
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Cel stumbled toward the edge - he could jump, follow them down, there had to be—119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLokNJb5SH4
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Something closed around his throat and the world lurched.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4LEvb2OzA
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡul03ijA8zA
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When it cleared, she stood before him.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFCAxEQ2tf
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Esrin Tempvolt.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVqRAk14i56
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbE7GDqASee
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPM2TJUS47e
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmVKeXybgx
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"Who are you?" Her voice was flat, emotionless - a demand, not a question.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48RirRucQi
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Cel couldn't breathe. His vision tunneled as pressure built.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmiGAVLGLb
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He forced words through the crushing grip. "Go... away."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS5YjUYnk7g
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Her expression didn't change.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhG2bL4sJJ
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His hands clawed at her wrist. He reached for Frostmark—119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxwNt3DZkX
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Pain.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcJOpQpZUy
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6KfWcJSq68
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Everything went black.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurkFE4kFT8
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When awareness returned, he couldn't breathe.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4vQcZLr8DH
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0a42g0RU4
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Blood surged up his throat.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVasH2UIlT
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EXnkBXWq0
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More blood came up. His vision grayed at the edges.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SYhegc5F2
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xWXpmHlpz
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'Breathe—'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4x114IcLiN
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Nothing.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQPp8lSpJY
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'BREATHE—'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6m0QEfuav5
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His lungs finally obeyed.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0R9YLg5i3m
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Air rushed in - hot, full of ash. But real.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGfSmKXIdK
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He sucked in desperate, ragged gasps between coughs that brought up more blood.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5WEu5JehK
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Footsteps crunched across burning ash.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2HPTLckMN
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Not hurrying. Just the slow, inevitable advance of something that knew its prey had nowhere to run.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4zdtsRWVW
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnbuLSmjyx
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He sucked in desperate breaths between coughs, blood still hot in his mouth.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOr5niHXwNA
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Esrin was ten steps away. Nine.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7ta0NcaOc
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0p3eSxc2LS
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But there was something else. Something that might—119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWq7P41g4x
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Eight steps.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZQtfljldS
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Cel slammed his fist into the burning ash.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczoIObRSoK
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Seven steps.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qiHPcs95z
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Again.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMYllKcyQp
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'Come on.'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6C7XmpnrzQ
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Six steps.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnXFgcv7bU
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Again. Harder.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7NjuiXpME
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'I know you're there!'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qmgog8Yfm
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Five steps.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMC9v51PpA
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The ground beneath him vanished.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjaVvmiqYYQ
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyi9jP1Rxg
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Cel fell backward into that hungry darkness—119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BG1B81bto
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh43ZGWmYNC
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A smile. Savage and defiant.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30w2sLgESw
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Then the maw snapped shut and darkness swallowed him once more.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TXdxdf4M9
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Esrin's eyes narrowed as the ground sealed itself.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35p3uka3yb
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'His divine energy... I can't sense it at all.'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjoJ5amx0zr
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl7rGr1rthL
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This boy had nothing.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Hzw4ZKfVC
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As if he simply... didn't exist in that regard.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9OKX8jnRA4
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'An artifact?'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWF5YDJmlyY
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzdZE9RAIS
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Her glaive materialized in her grip.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4j2OO1iaX
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4WmkpRyrCq
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She drew back and hurled it.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITrYJrvPAH
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbMbkYwNxnF
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It struck where the Tremorborne had vanished.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8qFAE97nS
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Light.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGruPj9HT1S
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Blinding, absolute light that turned the darkness into screaming white.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOyDpsH1PjD
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2psCiuZrGu
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The Tremorborne's flesh detonated around him.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEocS0TQpie
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMaARZNuMqQ
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH8gjZoAYLI
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He hit something solid.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7GaGVZeZXX
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiE7IO2vnd3
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Then stillness.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyUmSq7Hip
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The light faded by degrees. White to gray to the familiar crimson of the Ashlands sky.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Upvwl13tl
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Cel lay at the bottom of a crater.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGTiT3NETV
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsaNY8y0tv
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He couldn't move.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMswHtn3RyC
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrirJNMmFRN
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The glaive stood embedded in the ground beside his head.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbs7BeC4kS
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡytkdQuyjcc
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A shadow fell across him.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Yqa6U1D2C
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ67Sse0qPQ4
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiOK6nn3SU8
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypw3w0FxZO
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡicjAeiE6xp
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But his body refused.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBq30kIgBA
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Esrin reached down.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPwet1uvUY
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His eyes tracked her hand, his throat already tightening in anticipation— 119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29j9ZFChTV
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She grasped the glaive's hilt.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhL2IEiSUvd
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The weapon came free with a soft whisper of steel against stone.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQwf4950KJ
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She held it loosely at her side, the blade still crackling with residual energy.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAIUSxy77h
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"You're wasting my time."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrI2CPozcv0
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS3FJAEwnpM
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"Then... leave."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQonGgIWmgn
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Silence answered him.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOujc0bJju
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Esrin's gaze remained fixed on him, flat and emotionless. Seconds stretched.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkIQtRvN31
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"What's your name?"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5f0AEGhdn
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The question came without warning, without context.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpAjIzMzwiI
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"Celvian."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyD5tas5ypZ
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"Your patron god?"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrqxmqYMlp
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His throat tightened. "The Moon Goddess."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRPH1VEFZL
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡim4FTmtFx1
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"How old are you?"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6x7fzAscI
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"Sixteen."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNEabKNOdQ7
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNI77YwJaV
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"How did a sixteen-year-old Moon Chosen end up in the Hollow Realms?"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj2fMY2iyTD
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiyjRO1lXU
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His jaw clenched as rage flared hot in his chest.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjl1fQ9rx4
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1F4RkkhWcl
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVpbQ0OJQtm
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The thought settled in his chest like cold satisfaction.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabTxsiLoH3
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8JwPpxEP8
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC8D3Ya5oco
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"The cult." Not a question. A statement laced with something cold.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSQpk4q28q
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He nodded.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQrvQrcJpoC
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1JjYVQJeO
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyflfiyCDzO
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He couldn't risk that.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs44CkqmDCf
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tbDJdYeYf
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Finally, something in her posture shifted - subtle as a blade finding its sheath.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9MfWgeNfI
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmOYkWNyuJ
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUWrQQqDDD6
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"I'm taking you out of here."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkDvELmZtK
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Cel's body went rigid. "I can leave on my own."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuPUwFMlRuo
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfPjnnWi2g
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"Can you?" Her gaze swept across his bloodied form. "You can barely stand."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIbAobxa3a
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"And whose fault is that?"119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKD6Wppspzk
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The words came sharper than intended, edged with pain and defiance.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQrJPbDaI8v
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHOs8GeChqq
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFprMPBeI41
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFAssIFSnF
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Her fingers closed around it.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLofyeIb04
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The stone shattered.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGFKrTnJVk
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Not cracked - pulverized. Fragments turned to dust that slipped between her fingers, dissolving before hitting the ground.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVEHxDm8vZd
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Violet light erupted from where the stone had been.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZsYLLWJub
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Cel's eyes widened.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoy1MTbjLI
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A rift tore itself into existence - but wrong. All wrong.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAs9iF1yTf
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbs4QewHlM
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'That's not possible.'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfE1d9mzuMd
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGC8BeqIuQ
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Yet here it stood, crackling with violent energy, defying every law he'd been taught.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeb5lixnG3R
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHI4yb6zKo
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Raven's voice echoed in his memory: 'You can trust her. She will protect you.'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8eEJjC4yC
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ97THbq2De3
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And Raven had been certain. Even knowing she hunted him, he'd told Cel to trust her.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCAM6xvXQAF
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Esrin stepped toward the impossible rift, then glanced back. "Stay close. The passage is disorienting."119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVZrodRPJA
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Cel stared at her extended hand.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgKfb8wMiR
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWr7N5yD2Ew
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡugg1YhwcNE
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His fingers closed around hers.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTaaayUmjna
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNXKNA3Td1Z
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'I'm sorry, Raven.'119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdtgKUyZ23
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The thought was brief, nearly drowned by everything else screaming through his mind. But it was there.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFmkgMoYcR
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She pulled him forward without hesitation, her grip firm but not painful. They stepped through together.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYGMOXrpxF0
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The world inverted.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXR1s7m8ei
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURkeMVaNI8
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Then it stopped.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1FMQmHj57
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Solid ground materialized beneath his feet.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyeZ8XQ70eD
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Cel's vision cleared by degrees.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJqodGUS7W
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They stood on an island of land suspended in—what exactly?119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrHdDUmbqy
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnG7piGyk3d
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And in the center of the floating land stood a manor.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvuT3VmrBV4
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<You have achieved something extraordinary: You entered a new dimension.>119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZmThlMb85
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