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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3yHIXGrZL
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He began walking the perimeter of the throat, mapping what he was truly dealing with.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlx88Tsxl5V
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His breath caught.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXG3Y8qMDf
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Teeth. Dozens of them in the first ring alone. Perhaps hundreds total.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelqnIcy2nx
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvtViTyRbL
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw5PzHMblXQ
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXSFIxbObj
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkdZaBwBRq
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The enormity of the task settled over him like a weight.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcyTrWPNOs
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgVBf25pbU
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjFTluY7BZm
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gO2ZSMJCD
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡII3DgXH8pF
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But his right hand dangled uselessly at his side. Dead weight. The frostbite had taken it completely.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPDVbzC3lV
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He'd have to do this one-handed.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZe4v0SrKdi
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The blade's tip found purchase against yielding flesh. Cel drove it in.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgk8q7yePp
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfE81t0rxCd
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Cel jerked back, startled. He'd meant to probe carefully, to work the blade in gradually.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fWb9EQyPg
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Instead, he'd just buried it to the hilt in a single motion.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOm5YYATGL
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'Too much strength again.'118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5nnMrTEOvw
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6LEj7Fw3Aj
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He wrenched Silent Moon free and repositioned. Then drove it in from a different angle.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEUJagRIwpD
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWBBEurGBW
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2OFfWw9pR
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Good. Let it stay ignorant.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxmxzGWyvtM
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡookotBeKdn
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The work was going faster than he'd expected. Much faster.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsZ8Aq1khu6
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After perhaps twenty thrusts - maybe thirty - the tooth shifted.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrGApUt7Cn
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Not slightly. Not a gentle loosening.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80vmLT6bfw
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It lurched in its socket, suddenly free on one side, listing like a tree about to fall.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJDFqpW2kC
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Cel gripped the tooth's base where it jutted from the socket and pulled.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcxNFtI6hI
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Nothing. The tooth held fast, still anchored on one side.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ564zE3rWhw
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDJJz4hebJ
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Cel snarled and pulled harder.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡseA7hbyWnq
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjOIm93KUHR
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The fang hit the floor with a meaty thud.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZ5nhHALAv
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One tooth done.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKkhKH5Pqsx
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He stared at it for a moment, then looked up at the rows still remaining.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqC2ZhDnWe
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'That wasn't so bad.' 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfWbk2SDyI
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEocRiNlBoz
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCkcxbEj4ws
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This was doable.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAkcttmuc7
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWwjMq1utJ
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He needed water. 118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvbyv5HbHu
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But there was no water here. Just blood, bile and—118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPGIlF4HAk
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NjOqUnLoa
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'Frostmark creates ice.' The thought arrived slowly, fighting through dehydration's fog.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOq68pHG2q7
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And ice was frozen water.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡngtVl6a27E
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Cel pressed his left palm against the organic floor.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPAMXpOX8N
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvwAMODTm0
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He pulled his hand away, fingers aching from the cold, and stared at what he'd created.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8L2zc5mvG
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Frost. Beautiful and intricate.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDW3rgsKsqV
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Edible?118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKvp0785Zfp
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His stomach churned at the thought. But what choice did he have?118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNEKDpvKeyo
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqND9HJHbsk
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He brought it to his mouth. Hesitated.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHNnj5Q8uj
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Then bit down.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZSQN6a2BZ
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQAo3LoVYrQ
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But it broke.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7PUGr7goA
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7tDxXnLq8
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He chewed carefully, feeling the fragments crack and crunch. Then swallowed.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4vy0xxAGpK
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMbw958OpH
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Cel stared at the remaining frost on the floor, then at his left hand.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIliOS47rTo
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'It works.'118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmeenmSzfQ
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnvI2L4Ufws
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAZ9XKn9S3
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His throat tightened with something that might have been shame.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthHiJujVSv
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Q70Ycb2ez
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The words felt inadequate. Hollow. But they were all he had.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrKHjV17cf
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgT9L80uBsB
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When he finished, he stood, testing his legs. Steadier now. The frost had restored something vital.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXl3gamzKsI
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But his stomach twisted with a different kind of emptiness. Hunger. Sharp and demanding.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZKuPPRmPu
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His gaze drifted across the organic floor. The ribbed walls. The pulsing tissue that surrounded him.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6zxCWIuwe
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All of it was flesh. Meat. Raw, certainly. Probably disgusting.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeeyFeKs0Qn
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But edible.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDZa1D98uy
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsNgqR9sxJ
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB23tiEGBGx
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Compared to that?118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQf6lrDguH
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Fresh meat was practically a delicacy.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojRbZWa1uK
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFmji5Vj1Om
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44Zeh3l5dL
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He put it in his mouth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppb3EFPZBk
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Nothing. No taste at all. Just texture - soft, yielding, oddly smooth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7hz8OvhYS
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bOy4JSG93
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbdZruKzqX
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Cel clenched his jaw, breathing hard through his nose. Forced his throat to relax. Swallowed.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡddmjnWTlg3
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The meat went down.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyi22Ico3fj
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82Q850oI73
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCCdpvGm26
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He stood there gasping, bent forward. Waiting. Watching for the inevitable rejection.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEoPuwTNoQ
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But it didn't come.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mCAN88nOP
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3f9RE5G3Z
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcn6qtPy49p
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A third bite. Fourth. Fifth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18iZDYse4J
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtAF2SEuiO
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2baurDAP5C
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFTwyJww7B
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"Right then." His voice was steadier now. Stronger. "Back to work."118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3YDofalHz
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He approached the second tooth, blade in hand.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvxK3GGw5I
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Cel positioned Silent Moon at the tooth's base and drove it in deep.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHIxNeYgr7
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtbUsx70z9
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It went faster than the first tooth. His movements fell into rhythm - drive, wrench, reposition.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqEgfsxuLW
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The second tooth crashed to the floor. Then the third.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUF4Zzu6Cto
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBV2qtCQmn
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He glanced at Silent Moon between strikes.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHLVEKvmiM
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Six crescents glowed along its length now. Two more than before.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOV4oAcoZHf
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUt4dwv3HRR
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So the trait reacted with sharpness. The more crescents ignited, the keener the edge became.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIxTfAFxjI
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBpbUfQwtwZ
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The gap in the outer rings grew visible. Real progress.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jp3Wz8tgX
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Time became meaningless in the darkness.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GqEIVhxBd
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Tenth. Fifteenth. Twentieth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6HtOMaeIrc
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbvc1siSYT
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How long had he been working? Hours? Days?118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHnLWLxrl7
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The gap was clear now - wide enough to slip through if the creature opened its mouth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHbKbYE8dJ
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But dozens more teeth remained.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjG0fgXbab
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He turned toward the twenty-first tooth.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF09lKUwTj4
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVbYVpTIH5
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A year ago, half this work would have killed him.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjeU30F9PG
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Now? He could keep going.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4WdKY5MnJ
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Gratitude flickered through his chest - brief but genuine. This body - this gift - would not break easily.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKoRRenVdaQ
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He raised Silent Moon. Six crescents burned steadily along its length.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOYWFxe7i0
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He positioned the blade and drove it in.118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGmRUrLJE6
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Steel punched through flesh. He wrenched it free, repositioned—118Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJclhDMZgG
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A tremor ran through the creature's body.1234 copyright protection114ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6IvXm37sS 尼

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