Cel lay at the chasm's edge, staring into the depths.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56fYmxoHF4
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXRMh2yv4d
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This light felt... safe.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASFdeeo885
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His cracked lips pulled into something that might have been a smile if his face hadn't been so ruined.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Nit6cclCf
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'Maybe...'144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXOEjqFqugc
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdv68mLAUX
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But that light was unlike everything else in this nightmare.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYazAkVrlx9
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And the skeleton had jumped toward it without hesitation.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCUzx1XLno
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'The trial.' The words surfaced distant in his mind. 'Find the moon.'144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIYEdWkGRg
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNEJKw4uD23
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But deep below, where even the crystal-infested creatures were drawn…144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmnbKF2qOuV
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Maybe that's where it was.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAE9OoYWeFv
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UaywOGV7S
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It was the only hope he had left.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjZnOXVxPF
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSgn9aOvNT
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He fell.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKWYV8dchp
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The air rushed past him. His body tumbled through darkness, too weak to even flail.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBIyuPm2sN
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He slammed into a wide ledge jutting from the chasm wall.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwskOUBmEc
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsamj0Oj9VH
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Then his weight settled. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbg1CfDLxZR
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Pain registered distantly - his shoulder, his ribs, something in his back. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkplRRAiM2N
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Cel's fingers twitched against smooth stone. His cheek pressed against crystal, cold seeping through burnt skin.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rKSfbCBmj
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‘Down.’144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpj5Ri5UBiB
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The word echoed in his skull. Not a choice. A command his body obeyed without consulting his mind.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaE27vQg33A
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnqc0Tx9Xf
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5IEXnwgjUK
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But the pain felt... distant.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlZSUrZUH6Z
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Muffled, like the silence that had swallowed his hearing.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcReVCE1YzI
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0OoIWvbELt
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He kept descending.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRoZV2c0ED
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkAXJEK0JJ
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His breathing steadied. The constant burn in his chest eased. His throat stopped feeling like shredded glass.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkos4PBHEhJ
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMlZQdCRsD
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He should be panicking. Should be terrified.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEZneehklk
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But he wasn't.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOiYiZVyLJ
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzt6Em8Oh0k
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Cel pulled himself onto a wider ledge and paused. His legs shifted beneath him - not crawling now. Walking.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7D8LaHpeYD
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When had he stood up?144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxRyLpqD6Ka
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He looked down at his feet, planted firmly on crystal. Looked at his legs supporting his weight without collapsing.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3eEa5Uh8i9
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A crystal formation beside him caught his reflection, its surface smooth as glass.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmmUbLWV0k8
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His face stared back at him.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgbEjIDSfLc
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlgOKzONLc
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Cel's hand reached for the next formation. The reflection's hand reached too, matching his movement exactly.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwKQqw45i1
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He kept descending. His body moved with increasing ease, as if the journey required less effort with each step.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3BNyFDUOaR
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The reflection followed beside him, its hollow eyes tracking him.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1c6Xl1T2Pr
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'Wait… isn't that…?' 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Hr3JAqTiZ
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The thought barely surfaced before slipping away. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCoJRvYu18X
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'What was it again?' 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8UQESlA652
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A shiver crawled up his spine. His instincts screamed at him to stop, to look, to remember.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc5rvSVS2lu
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But he didn't. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGe7XWEadhj
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His steps never faltered. His gaze never wavered. Whatever it was, it didn't matter anymore.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycRzqf0syZ
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He focused on the path below. Left hand. Right foot. Down.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhswGZlrhBD
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RWheXjkil
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Cel’s next step found solid ground.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1002LgSzFV
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Since…144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuilAjHp3eJ
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Since when?144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFccsmB4Vlu
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnJPpfbYky
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFFiWYTzLR5
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A sphere of pure light.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOb9uKCpUm
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOL8Xv0Z7Jo
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Bones lay scattered across the floor beneath it - pale fragments studded with violet crystal growths, half-buried in the ground. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvDE5ZfTtV
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He didn't look at them.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOAtFg9hqs
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All that existed was the light.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZ9T6rqaKI
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‘Beautiful.’144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ0QIhOv4kW
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71OV65wTTD
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUBFrRqYur
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Couldn't remember why anything had hurt at all.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1rgDT9lfPM
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRtMjh4XMm4
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Another step forward.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZT0z4076h
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The light pulsed. His heart pulsed with it.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WEkqFXD5g
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'The trial...'144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgzM1ScBEL
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpsOB3sQag
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But it seemed so distant now. So... unnecessary.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6gLRGQZgq
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Why had he been searching? Why had he fought? This peace had been waiting all along. Just here. Just below.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjsdHb7MbN5
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxmgVnmchLf
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All of it... filling.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtulM5uGDRb
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Becoming whole.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVr1xTzJEV
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOgUFHlaQX
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'Home.'144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsiZ2Xq1EWq
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgG8UtcJL9
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Cel lifted his left hand, fingers extending toward the light.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6kEoRNGGs
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZD4eoTdf6h
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His knees buckled.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAMipcKamtX
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjc9HmGxlTk
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His lips curved into a smile.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ86T8TTLYxM
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ4NrXUDyE7
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Only this.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTC2HaFLeU
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Only—144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLYzDXvWdq
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The cavern shook.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyN2pkdrcA8
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The tremor hit with brutal force, violent enough to crack the crystal formations on the walls.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29NH7eZTni
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Cel's hand ripped free from the sphere as he fell sideways.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGeN7Gzhqcd
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The warmth vanished instantly, replaced by crushing cold.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVG58LcAoD
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His consciousness slammed back into place.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrgPmnybjd
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The pain returned all at once.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT8p58JTA5M
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRNyS6rkQr
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He gasped, lungs heaving like he'd been held underwater.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBuUB402O4u
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'What—'144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjM5JsWq6og
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP99NNpjkmF
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The sphere hovered before him, pulsing gently. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NMeU4Buib
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It was beautiful. Inviting.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXyUUgqzDX
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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—144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02d4L0CGZ1
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'No.'144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOPyoYv6NPL
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGGcAtDOT4
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'This thing… manipulated me.' The thought arrived with perfect clarity. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHEYavRPb8
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But when had it started?144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡko62ynu89L
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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—144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZ50KN7CrI
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'Decided what?'144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtr8uzGz53Z
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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?144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmECrHGft65
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His mind raced backward through fragmented memories.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1l6jJcFca
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The crystal maze. The spire in the distance - he'd avoided it. Gone the opposite direction every time.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzTIgWcv34
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Why?144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9EzvjUFaC
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He'd told himself it looked dangerous. Ominous. Something about it felt wrong.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUjN76oL5B
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But what if that feeling hadn't been his own?144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyjpQhv8Lc5
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1VcfKC6ZL
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What if none of it had been his choice?144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡytVAr7crpG
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGjPIA5qax
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What if it had been guiding him all along? Herding him like cattle toward this exact spot?144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbg6qhZ6eQ2
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUoaPWAv0V
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Even now - especially now - that warmth pressed against his skin. Gentle. Patient. Waiting for him to reach out again. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtRbLFPKuTC
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To surrender.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzl2kZugQl7
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgAEGoYGTO
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Just like everyone who'd ever tried to make him into something less.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RzLktov1l
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZFs97mNmZ
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His jaw clenched. His fingers curled into fists despite the agony in his right hand.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsiE8hgIEDF
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'It almost had me.'144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKQRCbF0XE
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The sphere pulsed before him. That gentle rhythm matching his heartbeat, trying to align again. Trying to pull him back.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvOMJFohQ6
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPp4DBx9PAY
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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.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC8o4iOzB3Y
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He turned.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTs61GXIfQ
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A massive head filled his vision.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqjaUznCKV
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Cel's breath stopped.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVG7DVWHaNo
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Pale, translucent skin stretched over angular bone structure. Violet light burned in hollow eye sockets.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzollfyzAXO
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The creature blinked.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLOHdp6HHQ
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Slow. Deliberate.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UTazb5hfF
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Its head tilted slightly, studying him with an intelligence that made his skin crawl. Not animal. Not human.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQm3GUinDDS
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Something else entirely.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH5yd2zAgnX
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