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A shriek like tearing metal ripped through the depths, followed by a crash that shook the world.
The Ugly Rat skidded backward, coughing up clots of blood. What came out was not merely red. It was thick with venom, a bilious fluid steeped in poison that hissed and pitted the ground it touched. The impact rattled its innards, but the creature raised its head anyway, as if pain no longer mattered. Dazed, disbelieving, it stared at Ketal.
Myst flowed through him. The world’s miracle coursed along Ketal’s limbs and sank into his bones. It moved with his breath, coiled with his stance, and brightened his eyes from within.
“That is impossible! It cannot be,” the rat rasped. “We cannot ever be like the young ones. We are something else entirely.”
A lion could not become a rabbit. It also could not love a rabbit, build a family with one, or bring forth children together. Such a thing had never happened, and yet the impossible was unfolding before the rat’s eyes.
“You… How did you do this?” the rat asked Ketal.
“I am not one of you. I am a being from the Outside,” Ketal said with a small smile. He shifted his weight forward, relaxed and certain. “So if I use a power you call fantasy, why should that be strange?”
“Nonsense,” the rat spat.
“You can deny it if you like....
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