The confession chamber's stone walls wept azure-black blood as Alyssa's body heat melted the ice spike into a crimson rivulet. Lily-scented plasma crystallized at the spike's tip, etching Wolf Mother's fang patterns onto flagstones—identical to the dagger carving Kane used yesterday.
"Crone's menses smell sweet." She lifted a blood crystal with the spike, scrawling "Elena" (her mother's name) on the wall. The letters dissolved, replaced by scarified diary entries: Blood Moon Genesis: They nailed my pelt to the astrolabe, silver spikes through womb. When Kane's ancestors sucked prenatal blood, each scream became confinement runes... The text drowned in blood surges as childbirth howls shook mortar loose, revealing more entries: They braided pups' umbilical cords into chains, forced me to lick "Mad King" sigils branded on their spines...
Kane's footsteps echoed beyond the door, bronze bells resonating: "Snooping in elders' diaries is rude." His projection warped lupine on the bloody wall, fangs dangling seventy-two silver hair strands—each tied to Alyssa's portraits from different eras.
Alyssa impaled her palm with the spike, silver-veined blood feeding wall cracks. The scars morphed into Wolf Mother's claws shredding Kane's projection. Exposed dermal layers revealed brass plaques in decaying follicles: Subject 0001: Eclipse Birth Records The reverse showed infant Kane suckling pus-blood from Wolf Mother's teat, his spine budding incomplete sigils.
"Two-way nursing?" She embedded the plaque into her wound. Silver veins sprouted wolf fur. Flagstones bled into a three-century-old ritual scene—Dr. Laine suturing Kane's brand with Wolf Mother's Achilles tendon, their blood congealing into lily buds.
Moonlight pierced the skull oculus. Blood pools boiled as Alyssa's hair ensnared the bronze bell. Chimes activated confinement runes, materializing Wolf Mother's agonized womb peeling off walls—its inner surface carved with erased entries: At 73rd Blood Moon, devourer shall birth vengeance... The text drowned in prenatal fluid. Alyssa's palm erupted with stretch marks syncing to Kane's spreading sigils.
Sarcophagus explosions rocked below. Fleeing, Alyssa tripped over dermal debris, fingers brushing Wolf Mother's caudal engraving: Laine's Note: Progeny's wailing wall is matriarch's tombstone As moonlight shifted, her "73" brand leaked azure amniotic fluid while wall depths harmonized infant wails with wolf howls.