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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgL1jfuu4Fp
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He began walking the perimeter of the throat, mapping what he was truly dealing with.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS5IQ2e5meB
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His breath caught.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZX2jktVrI
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Teeth. Dozens of them in the first ring alone. Perhaps hundreds total.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTur6gu1M1s
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQzEw89tl7
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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?117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfzoYV428eV
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMav4vBKtlu
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5rocuOtrc
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The enormity of the task settled over him like a weight.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmlt9ovv50
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"Let's get started then." His voice sounded strange in the close space - flat, swallowed by organic walls.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQJX2UCPbs
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSrLFugU1f
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCvo8gZpeR
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6VsXB4Vna
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But his right hand dangled uselessly at his side. Dead weight. The frostbite had taken it completely.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ028ZWsQd5F
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He'd have to do this one-handed.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLnZkOVAzeD
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The blade's tip found purchase against yielding flesh. Cel drove it in.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWUsf6mKDpn
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8M05i9O67h
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Cel jerked back, startled. He'd meant to probe carefully, to work the blade in gradually.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmmPK1CZR3
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Instead, he'd just buried it to the hilt in a single motion.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvf9NToADGD
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'Too much strength again.'117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcxnQdhGWdg
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWkzYd3pwN
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He wrenched Silent Moon free and repositioned. Then drove it in from a different angle.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfRauhch2U
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKbGU0W5uz
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ51CljFqnk5
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Good. Let it stay ignorant.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHksKTUUqt
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmACOCMql1v
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The work was going faster than he'd expected. Much faster.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP12OzMWGl7
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After perhaps twenty thrusts - maybe thirty - the tooth shifted.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8tEk0Ot6I
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Not slightly. Not a gentle loosening.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs4Yj5mmwgV
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It lurched in its socket, suddenly free on one side, listing like a tree about to fall.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8PVr8DSeUj
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Cel gripped the tooth's base where it jutted from the socket and pulled.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZwpLCnRyZ
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Nothing. The tooth held fast, still anchored on one side.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV1g0WTOMKz
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkK3ivZrvE
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Cel snarled and pulled harder.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5iCuiXY8Y
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ydObyq1Ow
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The fang hit the floor with a meaty thud.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF59odDXSrm
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One tooth done.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZjERNvqQz
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He stared at it for a moment, then looked up at the rows still remaining.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwTm12YFEh
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'That wasn't so bad.' 117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecuCKhtT5k
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1wmXqZSd3
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIPEgwduAb
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This was doable.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡww5ez4RXAQ
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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. 117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpBHGxUMKXa
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He needed water. 117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEw6N3prNSY
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But there was no water here. Just blood, bile and—117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cRLNyaz0h
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His gaze dropped to the shattered frost fragments scattered across the floor. The ice that had saved his life earlier.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLQu6x2xuj
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'Frostmark creates ice.' The thought arrived slowly, fighting through dehydration's fog.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FSP6J29T6
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And ice was frozen water.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUruijSFHR
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Cel pressed his left palm against the organic floor.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxA5oDc9NZF
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20T08yWjPX
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He pulled his hand away, fingers aching from the cold, and stared at what he'd created.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsJLkdvPD9
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Frost. Beautiful and intricate.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJx7BuA3mMg
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Edible?117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0yzOICGrv
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His stomach churned at the thought. But what choice did he have?117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYqriTa0rH
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEqVTsxHqp
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He brought it to his mouth. Hesitated.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡScv11R684p
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Then bit down.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJvLBwVBtmn
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ655Bzn5s93
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But it broke.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWRgXXEJGG
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazJwRVDNnN
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He chewed carefully, feeling the fragments crack and crunch. Then swallowed.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHQXxwyLpU
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡporm8GLVHq
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Cel stared at the remaining frost on the floor, then at his left hand.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjNnzNl117O
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'It works.'117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJRbQBnB2K
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEGkbmreb6
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtssE94BEQY
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His throat tightened with something that might have been shame.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHoByV8tef
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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."117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4Qzp6x8le
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The words felt inadequate. Hollow. But they were all he had.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe89FKQE0jM
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZUbEX231X
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When he finished, he stood, testing his legs. Steadier now. The frost had restored something vital.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKWnoXtCIk
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But his stomach twisted with a different kind of emptiness. Hunger. Sharp and demanding.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGWfUBz7VV
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His gaze drifted across the organic floor. The ribbed walls. The pulsing tissue that surrounded him.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zGFjti5pg
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All of it was flesh. Meat. Raw, certainly. Probably disgusting.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡusGLOC1gHA
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But edible.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡidG8SNkE05
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdUQaY5UMh
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjEemba3Ji
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Compared to that?117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsFaTByohe
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Fresh meat was practically a delicacy.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWLlgOcWrz
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJUMuqE1YW
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His stomach turned. Not from the sight - he'd seen worse. But from what he was about to do.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlaA5PEwEU
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He put it in his mouth.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1s6A4zyRwJ
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Nothing. No taste at all. Just texture - soft, yielding, oddly smooth.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvnSm2xPxN
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuu3pWriuF7
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjq6YUKe5m
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Cel clenched his jaw, breathing hard through his nose. Forced his throat to relax. Swallowed.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5gEsQYOfRQ
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The meat went down.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTaTMAJnSS
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡql0n0Ll2uO
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtEbicCTKD
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He stood there gasping, bent forward. Waiting. Watching for the inevitable rejection.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBBLURGbQM
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But it didn't come.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCC8nU64MZG
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EWhT1PYUz
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQKHLz5Xi3
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A third bite. Fourth. Fifth.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ8bTIwH7Hn
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNu5OnJ0J2g
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ192PnHoHlq
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQRmsFLPKT
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"Right then." His voice was steadier now. Stronger. "Back to work."117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNuz8KfhbR
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He approached the second tooth, blade in hand.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUllmTkNZhh
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Cel positioned Silent Moon at the tooth's base and drove it in deep.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRloLYP73PG
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVISM83Egk
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It went faster than the first tooth. His movements fell into rhythm - drive, wrench, reposition.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvioQ6yGao
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The second tooth crashed to the floor. Then the third.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKR2QFWiR2
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡij0Ts0Fibn
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He glanced at Silent Moon between strikes.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcWCml643p4
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Six crescents glowed along its length now. Two more than before.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnahJhLywp
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBOgkBNUsU
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'Empathic Steel.'117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mENZurBPs
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So the trait reacted with sharpness. The more crescents ignited, the keener the edge became.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOsXnHQIxw
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTHzFm2UnL
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The gap in the outer rings grew visible. Real progress.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yvzl2XH4f
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Time became meaningless in the darkness.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IWEfhGN7b
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Tenth. Fifteenth. Twentieth.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhkdBTiOJc
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVw5ryfmpVt
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How long had he been working? Hours? Days?117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNNqLLJ5WF
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The gap was clear now - wide enough to slip through if the creature opened its mouth.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAHlHWdoKT
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But dozens more teeth remained.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllpVTSMCWd
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He turned toward the twenty-first tooth.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHz27ZYSQm9
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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.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulAHNURyWY
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A year ago, half this work would have killed him.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZHvv92bIe
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Now? He could keep going.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt0ZLuN8bzB
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Gratitude flickered through his chest - brief but genuine. This body - this gift - would not break easily.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8yDRp6jtfZ
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He raised Silent Moon. Six crescents burned steadily along its length.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1wNDKMr0c
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He positioned the blade and drove it in.117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIxhelrneD
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Steel punched through flesh. He wrenched it free, repositioned—117Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcID5T6OZDg
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