Moonlight slanted through the Wolf Mother's skull-shaped blood filter as silver goblet serrations bit into Alyssa's fingers. Kane's twelve ritual vessels soaked in viper-venom laced plasma, the third scrub revealing hidden engraving—"To Disciple Laine" glinting with three-century-old patina, mirroring the temporal paradox device inscriptions from Volume One.
"Crone's mentorship reeks of gore." She wrapped the rim with bloodied deerskin. The Wolf Mother's pelvic altar resonated, vaporizing dregs into holographic mist— Young Laine shoved a silver wolf corpse into bronze sarcophagus containing septuagenarian Kane. Their blood connected via umbilical cord, Kane's "Mad King" sigil corroding Laine's flesh inversely.
Kane's bell-chiming footsteps echoed through bone tunnels: "Polishing betrothal tokens invites curses." His fingers grazed the rim, golden-red veins ensnaring her silver hair—tips glowing with Laine's lab coordinates from Volume One's paradox incident.
"Two-way tutoring?" She snapped sigil-infested strands, hair fragments coalescing into miniature time machine models in blood. Confinement runes wailed through walls as sacral bone shattered, exposing hidden matrimonial scroll: Frost Moon 73: Laine-Kane blood pact sealed with Wolf Mother's uterine blood The lily wax seal encased her extracted wisdom tooth from infancy.
Alyssa's silver veins retrogressed into Kane's sigils. Sparks at their contact illuminated altar foundations—seventy-two silver wolf brides kneeling in bone circle, each clutching "To Disciple Laine" goblet replicas. The central skeleton's ring bore her mother's name.
"Eternal reception encore." Kane's fangs elongated, tearing forearm flesh to reveal Laine's autograph brand. Sarcophagus groans merged with Volume One's time machine hum from below.
At lunar zenith over Wolf Mother's pelvis, goblets levitated into Möbius strip formation. Alyssa's hair writhed autonomously, strands exuding Laine's lab logs hologram— Experiment 73: Kane successfully implanted into 73rd Blood Moon timeline. Mentor-disciple paradox loop closed Blood droplets corroded new text onto the projection: Vessel modification 97%—Bridal position imminent
Pup whimpers rose from the vault. Kicking over blood basins, Alyssa dislodged a bride skeleton's ocular coin—bite marks on silver echoing Laine's dying words from Volume One: Time loop's terminus is blood matrimony Moonlight through goblet arrays revealed all "To Disciple Laine" engravings shifting to "To Disciple Alyssa", her hair bleaching into Laine's youthful platinum.