Cel lay at the chasm's edge, staring into the depths.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiYfksGJPw
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The white light pulsed far below - steady, gentle, almost alive. Each beat sent warmth through his chest, so different from the violet crystal shriek that had destroyed his hearing. So different from the four burning suns that had scorched his skin.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrOEQjL8hMF
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This light felt... safe.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxB2lcl8Yub
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His cracked lips pulled into something that might have been a smile if his face hadn't been so ruined.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKnieyZ2Ivg
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'Maybe...'146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHoSh5w0v2
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The thought formed slowly through exhaustion and pain. He wouldn't survive another day in the maze - this much was certain. The burns covered most of his skin. His impaled hand wouldn't stop bleeding. His legs couldn't hold his weight anymore.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGKpI8CbPC
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But that light was unlike everything else in this nightmare.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhLKh5uA7f
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And the skeleton had jumped toward it without hesitation.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIA9f0CJmIa
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'The trial.' The words surfaced distant in his mind. 'Find the moon.'146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUn61hxqO1
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He'd searched the entire maze - or what little he could reach of it. The moon had vanished from the sky. The answer wasn't above. Wasn't in the crystal formations or the mirror lake.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuKh9E7Gst
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But deep below, where even the crystal-infested creatures were drawn…146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODBFPTBwAD
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Maybe that's where it was.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJehLWZaRh7
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Maybe that's where he'd find what he needed to complete this trial. To earn the Moon Goddess's blessing and escape this place before his body finally gave out.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCtU9U5hVa
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It was the only hope he had left.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZDjrCfS5E
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Cel's left arm trembled as he dragged himself forward. His body scraped over the edge, and for one terrible moment there was nothing beneath him but air.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1rtctEcrv
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He fell.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8OjmpngBIL
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The air rushed past him. His body tumbled through darkness, too weak to even flail.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQauuI1bgFd
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He slammed into a wide ledge jutting from the chasm wall.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gi6ft85xo
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The impact drove the breath from his lungs. His body bounced once, then slid across crystal before stopping at the ledge's edge. For a moment he lay there, stunned, teetering over the drop.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMBCUyWCc2E
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Then his weight settled. 146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSaWc7lopAZ
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Pain registered distantly - his shoulder, his ribs, something in his back. 146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdoQCP5Iom
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Cel's fingers twitched against smooth stone. His cheek pressed against crystal, cold seeping through burnt skin.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0rntFfewQv
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‘Down.’146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg41tvnV3cR
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The word echoed in his skull. Not a choice. A command his body obeyed without consulting his mind.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIvn1WlrNf
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His left hand scraped forward, finding purchase. Then his knee dragged up. He crawled across the ledge toward the next outcropping, his body moving like something already dead, animated by will alone.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1C7r4wCLzb
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Each movement should have been agony. His burns stretched and split with every reach. His impaled hand dragged uselessly, leaving a trail of blood. His shoulder screamed from the impact.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZq90yj8u9
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But the pain felt... distant.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIaGVW0YA1
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Muffled, like the silence that had swallowed his hearing.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWTa42EiGx
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His left hand reached for the next crystal. The edge sliced his palm - he watched blood well up, watched it smear across crystal. The pain registered somewhere far away, disconnected from him.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRqMaeO8Jf
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He kept descending.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnzgYG2Il1
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The walls pressed closer. The violet glow from the crystals grew dimmer, overwhelmed by that white radiance rising from below. With each movement down, the light grew stronger. Warmer.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0tSZQLPCUW
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His breathing steadied. The constant burn in his chest eased. His throat stopped feeling like shredded glass.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZsjHgoK8j
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Cel's foot slipped on smooth stone. He caught himself, barely, fingers scraping for purchase. His body swung wild for a moment before finding purchase.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESjbBkBFjG
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He should be panicking. Should be terrified.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yy9n0Hrwd
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But he wasn't.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmqdKBFeIK
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His legs stopped shaking. The trembling in his arms faded. When he reached for the next handhold, his grip felt... steady. Strong, even.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdj9qxArkw
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Cel pulled himself onto a wider ledge and paused. His legs shifted beneath him - not crawling now. Walking.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuxWUvCRcYU
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When had he stood up?146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0cuHI6OcV
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He looked down at his feet, planted firmly on crystal. Looked at his legs supporting his weight without collapsing.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvfiG4fSlE1
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A crystal formation beside him caught his reflection, its surface smooth as glass.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJg3OzHK1A
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His face stared back at him.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOF4EM4InAK
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But the expression wasn't his own. The reflection's eyes held nothing - no rage, no defiance, no spark of the newly found hope. Just empty acceptance. The face of someone who had already surrendered to his fate.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYt4HBB1MM6
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Cel's hand reached for the next formation. The reflection's hand reached too, matching his movement exactly.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZKq0bvAeU
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He kept descending. His body moved with increasing ease, as if the journey required less effort with each step.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq3vaLr8TDQ
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The reflection followed beside him, its hollow eyes tracking him.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQERuldt55F
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'Wait… isn't that…?' 146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJuolhXORr
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The thought barely surfaced before slipping away. 146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBVGzzUbmYt
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'What was it again?' 146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMNnEOjYCY
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A shiver crawled up his spine. His instincts screamed at him to stop, to look, to remember.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdhMhxjdeC
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But he didn't. 146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Nlf5rb1yT
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His steps never faltered. His gaze never wavered. Whatever it was, it didn't matter anymore.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKzWt8BQwL
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He focused on the path below. Left hand. Right foot. Down.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtDVihwPjh
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The white light pulsed stronger now, close enough that its warmth touched his skin. Not burning - nothing like the suns. This heat seeped into him gently, filling something that had been empty for so long.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvGYRokWf7
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Cel’s next step found solid ground.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2DrI3Qcyc
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Since…146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkQScrbA4j
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Since when?146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNCRZRdYYi
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He blinked, swaying. The chasm walls rose impossibly high above him - he'd been descending for... how long? Minutes? Hours? The memory felt hazy, like trying to hold mist.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMkzHjuHn1
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The cavern floor stretched before him, smooth and vast. And there - suspended in the center like a captivating star - hovered what he'd been drawn toward.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTCgLSYSdc
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A sphere of pure light.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARtTxCRXcQ
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It filled the cavern, so enormous his mind struggled to grasp its scale. The white radiance pulsed from within it, steady as a heartbeat, casting everything in gentle luminescence.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfWId1jKad
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Bones lay scattered across the floor beneath it - pale fragments studded with violet crystal growths, half-buried in the ground. 146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIIJadrfNyC
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He didn't look at them.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNSdECFWlE
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All that existed was the light.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrixdrEBbaN
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‘Beautiful.’146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EVq0LdMDg
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The word formed in his mind, soft and certain. This was beauty - real beauty. Everything else had been false. The pale moon from his vision, his family's faith, all of it hollow compared to this.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRPwQwAybZ
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Cel's left foot moved forward. Then his right. The pain in his feet had vanished. When had that happened? He couldn't remember his last step hurting.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCmovFTYrg
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Couldn't remember why anything had hurt at all.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPxLO1HfFC
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The burns on his skin - were they still there? He looked down at his arms. Saw the blistered flesh, the weeping wounds, the blood. But felt nothing. They might as well have belonged to someone else.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zGhD0HYNM
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Another step forward.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6O0amubgKv
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The light pulsed. His heart pulsed with it.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2V2del4MRt
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'The trial...'146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCUnlpnmUi
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The thought drifted through his mind like smoke, barely formed before dissolving. There had been something. Some task. Some reason he'd been suffering.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhuvNa6A2gI
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But it seemed so distant now. So... unnecessary.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZW9SgvAxsq
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Why had he been searching? Why had he fought? This peace had been waiting all along. Just here. Just below.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlda03LG2jO
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Each step brought him closer. The warmth intensified - not burning, never burning. It filled the hollow spaces inside him. The emptiness carved out by a year of starvation and torture. The wounds left by his family's betrayal. The cracks from watching his father beat him while his mother did nothing.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyoFwi5U11
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All of it... filling.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSCkrcr2R3
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Becoming whole.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMtZ0Nrn2XJ
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The sphere towered before him now, so close he could reach out and touch it. Its surface rippled like liquid silver. Inviting. Welcoming.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZAa7OZh5r
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'Home.'146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZpYRUV0lB
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Yes. That's what this was. He'd been searching for a home. For somewhere he belonged. And he'd found it. Finally.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ429SwnqxAj
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Cel lifted his left hand, fingers extending toward the light.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxDW5VCI8h
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The warmth reached out to meet him, eager, hungry. It wrapped around his hand like a lover's touch, gentle and consuming. The sensation traveled up his arm—not pain, but fullness. Being filled. Being completed.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFG3dznJwuC
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His knees buckled.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfw1febCFCp
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Cel gasped as the light surged into him, pouring through the point of contact. It flooded his veins, his bones, his mind. Every empty space inside him suddenly packed full of something vast and eternal.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6HFjK7oZCy
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His lips curved into a smile.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtBiz3McOe
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This was everything. This was all he'd ever needed. The maze didn't matter. His trial didn't matter. Finding the moon didn't matter.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucIz535i5R
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Only this.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5wOdb128cN
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Only—146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2jqxAy1S0
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The cavern shook.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQJfwaPzBGA
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The tremor hit with brutal force, violent enough to crack the crystal formations on the walls.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0WiqyMZrCT
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Cel's hand ripped free from the sphere as he fell sideways.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCe0xgraDit
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The warmth vanished instantly, replaced by crushing cold.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1hxMldQEV
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His consciousness slammed back into place.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8SRmqUdywP
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The pain returned all at once.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1TrCFSBmd
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His knees hit the ground. Pain exploded through his legs, sharp and immediate. The burns on his skin screamed. His impaled hand throbbed with each heartbeat, blood pulsing hot between his fingers.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsvtnL6IWj
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He gasped, lungs heaving like he'd been held underwater.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZtN1FpHdM
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'What—'146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNlMoobvWQj
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His vision swam. The cavern spun around him, crystal walls refracting light in dizzying patterns. He pressed his left hand against the floor, trying to anchor himself.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnExWnJnKG
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The sphere hovered before him, pulsing gently. 146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03KiAPf192
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It was beautiful. Inviting.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWotctXoGR
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Cel's chest tightened. The urge to reach out again clawed at him, desperate and immediate. Just one more touch. Just to feel that warmth, that completeness—146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sUwcyFvV8
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'No.'146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYw3okmHCRH
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He jerked his gaze away, jaw clenched so hard his teeth ached. His hands shook. His entire body trembled with something between withdrawal and rage.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnco6GB9lQV
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'This thing… manipulated me.' The thought arrived with perfect clarity. 146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvGkvngl1Kb
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But when had it started?146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0GlFOjNz2
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Cel's breath came faster. He'd climbed down into the chasm on his own. Hadn't he? He'd made that choice. Seen the light and decided—146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplIi58N8hm
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'Decided what?'146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bKtzfixgv
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His fingers dug into the stone floor. When exactly had he decided? When had the pain stopped mattering? How had his body suddenly become strong enough to walk when moments before he couldn't even stand?146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡveU8N37yYc
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His mind raced backward through fragmented memories.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6I1Xx0mR3
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The crystal maze. The spire in the distance - he'd avoided it. Gone the opposite direction every time.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9G2kqelcC
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Why?146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtYiK9UutQ
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He'd told himself it looked dangerous. Ominous. Something about it felt wrong.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rlcpU2PkA
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But what if that feeling hadn't been his own?146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsdvxwg4Ak
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His stomach clenched. The thought wormed deeper, spreading like infection through his memories. Every decision he'd made in the maze - every turn away from the spire, every frustrated return to the ruin, every restless urge to keep moving in the other direction.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZPnrPBapW
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What if none of it had been his choice?146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2yf1LfH8We
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The marks he'd carved to track his path had disappeared. The maze had folded in on itself, passages appearing and vanishing. He'd assumed it was the maze's nature.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDXIcklwbX
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What if it had been guiding him all along? Herding him like cattle toward this exact spot?146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZ2FPtNz7O
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Cel's breathing grew ragged. His nails bit into his palms hard enough to draw blood, mixing with the dried gore already coating his hands.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHR9C6bImN
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Even now - especially now - that warmth pressed against his skin. Gentle. Patient. Waiting for him to reach out again. 146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ETzIDPZVb
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To surrender.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfp4fZ5LOLX
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Just like the reflection watching him from the wall. Just like his father had wanted. Just like the cultists who'd bled him for a year, waiting for him to break.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYkjLRfvvlv
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Just like everyone who'd ever tried to make him into something less.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXPXQXQbrq
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Heat flooded through Cel's chest - not the sphere's false warmth, but something hotter. Sharper. The rage that had kept him alive when he should have died a dozen times over.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNqWUjHmSB
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His jaw clenched. His fingers curled into fists despite the agony in his right hand.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkaLUosxtF
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'It almost had me.'146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXQmApiH06
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The sphere pulsed before him. That gentle rhythm matching his heartbeat, trying to align again. Trying to pull him back.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH5yMsnpwUP
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Cel tried to push himself up. His legs trembled, refusing to hold his weight. He collapsed back onto his knees, gasping.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5nJT2RzGQv
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He needed to move. Needed to crawl away, find somewhere to hide from that light while his mind was clear enough to think. The cavern had to have other passages, other routes.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBwVCLC0fE
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He turned.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxNwt58Gvm
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A massive head filled his vision.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYMtDGTfB7
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Cel's breath stopped.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZtE0FskTZ
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Pale, translucent skin stretched over angular bone structure. Violet light burned in hollow eye sockets.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlmrU1LxR5
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The creature blinked.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutA5IaHuSG
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Slow. Deliberate.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrjRKKbKyz7
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Its head tilted slightly, studying him with an intelligence that made his skin crawl. Not animal. Not human.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJwSJd8Bn4
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Something else entirely.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz4ezRkNRJa
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