Cold pressed against burned skin.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBvAkU8eyT
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Cel's eyes cracked open. Gray light filtered through crystal formations that no longer glowed with lethal intensity. The four suns had set. Night's mercy had returned.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTldIqO1PmG
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He'd survived - somehow.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqotx8eEdHO
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His body hadn't moved. He was still slumped against the creature's spine, still impaled through the palm on the crystal spike. Dark blood had dried in trails down his forearm, staining hide beneath him.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYQYGEyYhF
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The creature's breathing moved in slow, steady rhythm. It had stopped walking. Settled down to rest while he'd been unconscious.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgWFBKGxAq
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Cel stared at the spike protruding from both sides of his hand.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XiT2r0J1a
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He needed to move. Needed to climb down before the creature woke and while darkness still gave him cover from the heat.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzaSzRvixe
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But his body refused.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYJnjkWWLN
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Every muscle screamed. His skin was burned. His lips split. His throat beyond dry. He had no strength left.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkY3xROZfv
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Yet his left hand twitched anyway. Fingers closed around a ridge.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5BozaRquSo
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He pulled.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMWH9N1O3w
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Nothing happened.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QUcSCgRXK
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He pulled harder.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJRjMIketaj
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His body shifted an inch. Then another. Pain exploded through his impaled hand as the crystal scraped against bone. But he didn't stop. He couldn't stop. Not here. Not now.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyp1rpJLuUZ
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With a wet sound, his palm slid free of the spike.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgp4bcyAOj
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Blood flowed fresh. He pressed the ruined hand against his chest and pushed himself upright with his left arm. His legs trembled beneath him, threatening to give out.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuSX09O0H9m
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One foot in front of the other.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41UfmpdLAM
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His left hand gripped crystal edges. His right hung useless at his side, leaving a trail of blood droplets. Pain accompanied each movement.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuyYYUfGvc
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Finally, his feet touched solid ground.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDQjL2R0K6
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His legs buckled immediately.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwcHUrHS1Y
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Cel collapsed onto crystal shards, his impaled hand slamming onto the ground. The impact sent a fresh wave of pain up his arm. He bit down on a scream his ruined ears wouldn't hear.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbThTgkNaP
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He should be dead.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKgjk1OGOy
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The thought arrived with perfect clarity. No fever haze. No delirium. Just cold, factual assessment.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqV75rvDy5
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He'd been starved for over a year. Beaten and bled by cultists who used him for their twisted experiments. Forced to eat rotting meat until his sense of taste died completely. Transported to this nightmare after nearly dying in the Hollow Realms. Crossed the crystal maze under four blazing suns that permanently destroyed his hearing. Suffered burns and cuts across most of his body. Dragged into a lake of mirrors where reflections of everyone who’d tormented him nearly shatter his mind completely. Gone two days without water in killing heat. Impaled his own hand just to stay conscious while clinging to a creature that could crush him by chance, unaware he even existed.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMQlHD73FO
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His body should have quit a dozen times over.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOohqozoak
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Yet somehow, his heart kept beating. His lungs kept pulling air. Some stubborn piece of him - rage perhaps, or simple spite - refused to let go.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2H5MBXNdiQ
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But he couldn't stand. Not anymore.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4jw5txIo3
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Cel pressed his forehead against the ground, blood from his split lips wetting his mouth. His chest heaved with each breath. The night air felt impossibly cold against his burnt skin, every nerve screaming at the contrast.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKjWsPUEoA
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He knew he wouldn't survive another day in this crystal maze.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhV3sfRLxXx
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His left arm trembled as he pushed himself up. Made it to his knees before his vision grayed at the edges. He stopped. Breathed. Waited for the world to solidify.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vWlC5pdz9
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One knee forward. Then the other. Crawling like an animal through scattered crystal fragments that bit into his palms and shins.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLczAmjwQU
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His right hand dragged uselessly, leaving a trail of blood across stone and crystal. Each time his weight shifted onto it, fresh agony bloomed. He learned to favor the left, to distribute his weight differently.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8cIopVciG
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Progress came through painful effort. Each movement a small victory of will over flesh.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrK0wcfSIu
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‘Just keep moving. Don't think. Don't stop.’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8OnvKjBm6s
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His left palm pressed against something smooth. He blinked, trying to focus through the haze.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxmDZFoXcq
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The ground had changed. No more scattered shards biting into his skin. The surface beneath him felt almost polished, worn smooth by something he couldn't name.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdotD58gsfr
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‘When did that happen?’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUYaGkgwYTm
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Cel lifted his head, squinting into the gloom.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TQ8iQeGvM
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The crystal nearest him rose at least twice his height. He followed its line upward - three times his height. Four. The crystal stretched toward the sky like a cathedral pillar, its surface flawless and vast.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbEdzuOQI5F
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He turned his head left. Another massive formation. Right. Three more, each one dwarfing anything he'd seen in the outer maze. They pressed closer together too, their bases nearly touching, creating narrow gaps between them that twisted at angles his eyes couldn't quite follow.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Ld2u0eV39
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‘Just how far did that creature carry me?’ The thought arrived slowly, fighting through exhaustion. 160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKct6FTJkP
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He'd been barely conscious during the journey. Had felt the creature's movement beneath him, the hours passing in fragments of awareness. But he hadn't truly comprehended the distance. Hadn't realized—160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFzoTmwPiA
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A shadow moved between the crystals.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5K3lkCFyue
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Cel froze.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ljS7r8VP3
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The darkness shifted.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuNw5YTtK6
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Bone gleamed pale between the formations. A skull emerged first - violet light burning in empty sockets, jagged crystal jutting from the crown like a broken halo. Ribs came next, each one studded with crystalline growths that formed a cage around the hollow chest.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODNLXyV5ry
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The skeleton's left leg dragged behind - crystal had swallowed the bone completely. The limb scraped across stone with each step, leaving trails through dust.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKcXGTZkYP
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The skull rotated.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHEOVgVVXb
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Violet light locked onto him.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1u1uKUoxg
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‘Shit.’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEVdzpMvGYZ
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Cel's breath caught. His arms were already shaking from the crawling. His body had nothing left. The thought of standing - of running - was laughable.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwc09SGyVB
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The skeleton took another step. The crystal-encased leg dragged behind, slowing its approach but not stopping it.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPiDT7wz0OL
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Another step.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguuSAIfnDW
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Cel’s left arm shifted. Then his knee. He dragged himself forward - away from the approaching thing. 160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxy9kSkw3y
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Too slow.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGY6tn7lp2W
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He forced himself forward another pull. His right hand screamed. His vision blurred. The skeleton closed the distance with grinding steps, narrowing the gap with each of his pitiful retreats.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSCb07CDyk
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‘I can't… there's nowhere—’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBF0zA1t8kW
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The world shook.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShwqaLjDry
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Cel's arms buckled. He hit the ground hard, cheek slamming against smooth stone. The surface beneath him rippled, sending violent vibrations up through his bones. Crystal formations around him blazed brighter, their hum rising to a shriek.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9QK0CNjrm
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He twisted his head.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkBT4YBZub
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In the distance - far beyond the dense forest of crystal formations around him - something caught his eye. A sliver of the great spire, barely visible between towering formations.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQvKybM1bo
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Its light was gone.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2bppRGzw6
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The violet glow that had always pulsed through its core had died completely. The structure was collapsing - its top already fractured, massive chunks breaking away and tumbling down its length. The destruction spread like infection, racing through crystal with terrible speed.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06pI1ISw0x
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Then the fragments hit the ground.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQefyzL3EHZ
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The impact slammed through the maze. The floor heaved beneath Cel like a living thing. He flattened himself against stone as the shock wave rolled through, strong enough to make his jaw clench and his vision shake.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVEu90uknq
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The skeleton stumbled, its crystal-heavy leg unable to compensate. It crashed to one knee, skull turning toward the distant destruction.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlhpToxyeo
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Cel didn't wait.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQigeMSt36m
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He dragged himself forward with desperate strength, ignoring the pain, ignoring everything except the need to put distance between himself and that thing. One arm length. Two. His muscles screamed. His vision tunneled.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mH1ly1Wdm
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His left hand reached forward and found nothing but air.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjbOvx1SkJM
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‘Huh?’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrU5i1Qlj5P
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Cel stopped, panting, staring at the edge that had appeared impossibly before him. A massive chasm split the maze - a wound in the earth so wide that it could easily swallow an entire city.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtiu93vTR2R
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Behind him, crystal scraped against stone.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGrZnsD6W2J
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He twisted his head back.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJi0JkcdWe5
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The skeleton had risen. Its crowned skull was fixed on him now, violet light burning in empty sockets. It moved forward with renewed purpose, dragging its ruined leg behind, closing the distance between them.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlI9z3PAsx1
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Cel tried to crawl sideways along the chasm's edge. His arms gave out after two pulls. He collapsed flat, watching the thing approach.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVWH4CT9vwZ
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Ten feet away. Eight. Six.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJa7aeJbeX9
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The skeleton loomed over him, blocking out the moonless sky. Crystal growth caught what little light remained, creating shadows that danced across its bones. Its jaw hung open in a permanent scream. One skeletal hand reached down, fingers spreading to grasp—160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ERaRoRlgN
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It stopped.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbGATlIjtz
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The crowned skull tilted downward. But not at Cel. Past him.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGeIUkkH833
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Into the chasm.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWqAsRLAyj9
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Cel's breath came in ragged gasps as he watched the thing's posture change. The reaching hand withdrew. The skeleton turned away from him, its violet gaze locked on something in the depths below.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNiWk7TjX38
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Then it stepped over him.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2OaNu0B0h
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Cel felt the scrape of its crystal leg against his back as it straddled his body. Felt the thing's weight shift. A moment later, it was past him, standing at the very edge of the chasm.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡktUdkv7EDB
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It jumped.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOUVKmUXOP
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No hesitation. No pause. Just a simple, decisive leap off the edge and into darkness.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQYM0w8z2V
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The skeleton disappeared. Swallowed by the abyss as if it had never existed.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalTA4Z0ExP
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Silence returned. 160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0hvncGpJR
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Cel lay motionless at the precipice, too exhausted to process what he'd just witnessed.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3dYqoBSvq
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‘What... what was that?’160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQHFm0BqTJ
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His left arm trembled as he dragged himself forward. Just an inch. Enough to peer over the edge.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7eFsm3PSq
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Now, it is a repetThe depths disappeared beyond sight. No bottom visible. Just endless descent into violet-lit darkness that made his stomach clench. The chasm walls were studded with massive crystal formations, each one larger than any he'd seen in the maze above, jutting outward in chaotic clusters.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDwahgUUXY
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But deep within - far, far below - something else glowed.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfyzn7xxib
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White light. Not violet.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRu2uZvRkxs
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It pulsed gently, steady and alive. The rhythm matched something in his chest, a pull he felt in his bones.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhv9ruytlHT
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‘The skeleton saw this. Saw it and jumped without hesitation.’ Cel stared into the abyss, trying to comprehend what he was seeing. 160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9n5s6hqTmL
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The creature had carried him impossibly far - the spire had been barely visible before it collapsed. The maze had transformed around him while he'd clung to consciousness. Larger. Denser. More concentrated. As if all its power was converging on this single point.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9Ovsy2HCj
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He'd survived everything only to end up here, at the maze's deepest reaches. Too weak to crawl. Too broken to do anything but stare into depths that should terrify him.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsTNVCiJPc
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But that light…160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPeDVxsIle
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That light was different.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwcN7grxw5
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It felt almost like… hope.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8cGWSO2KO
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