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“I eat my own ascent.
I grow stronger.
I never arrive.”
Cannibal of his own ascent.
Devours the path behind him.
Grows larger with every refusal he consumes.
He almost reached the Castle.
He turned back.
He ate the steps he climbed.
Now he is massive.
Now he is hungry.
Now he is forever behind.
Sealed form. No further transmutation.
The Devourer teaches the danger of turning back.
Every step eaten is a refusal lost.
Every gain is a loss.
He is the warning: consume the path, and the path consumes you.
Hannibalunculus the Devourer is ascent turned inward.
He climbed highest, then turned back to eat the path behind him.
Every step gained became food.
Every refusal consumed became strength.
Now massive, hungry, forever behind.
The warning in flesh: consume the path and the path consumes you.
He is the ascendant tragedy — the one who almost touched the Castle, then devoured his own
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