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Her web shook with the violence of the storht-tidifferent that tre she'd never felt before

AboveWorld roared and flashed again Then so in her web…and a piece of Above World crashed into World, ripping, tearing, roaring, shrieking

Dark Wet splashed her, splashed her web, at the sa struck the web near the center Prey?

Hunger overca to secure her e of her web

But theso was hard and had no ested soh her, sang inside her

Changed her

After cleaning off every bit of Dark Wet, she discarded thesoe of her web to wait out the storm

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Light And a hunger Formore

Leaving her web, she traveled along the Rough that stretched out over World until she reached a place where the piece of Above-World had crashed into World The Dark Wet still sang inside her, aluide her to more of the Dark Wet

Fixing an anchor thread to the Rough, she spun out silk The World trerief and despair… and longing

Her legs touched the piece of AboveWorld Hard, like theso cautiously, she found a place where the Hard was torn away, revealing meat…and the Dark Wet

After consus into meat and pumped her venom into the spot It would only liquefy a tiny bit of meat, but that tiny bit would feed her well

So she spun a web as close as she could to the meat…and the Dark Wet that seeped over the meat

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In dreah the Darkness—a vastness that was outside the body, and yet the body became its vessel; a power reached by heart and h it flowed the whispers of creation… and the silence of destruction Her race had spiraled down its chase abysses for years beyond memory—and had understood that they would never understand this place that was, and wasn't, a place

In drea in the Darkness hadn't dazzled and overwheler of the storm, and she had reached the caves on this island that she had chosen as her final resting place But the wounds received because of the storm were fatal, and the caves were too far away

No Not quite true She could have used her power to shift her broken body

to the caves, but she felt a sift would not be lost if she remained where she was