Moonlight dripped through the Wolf Mother's pubic bone filter as silver veins scorched Alyssa's fabricated estrus brand. The seventy-third swing of the cellar's bronze pendulum released ancestral death wails—Kane's monthly blood-collection signal.
"Crone's menstrual chalice needs refurbishing." She "accidentally" overturned the silver basin, venom-laced blood splattering confinement runes. Walls exuded Wolf Mother's amniotic fluid, vaporizing the spill into lily-scented mist. When Kane's bronze extractor pierced her wrist, prenatal blood surged inversely beneath silver veins.
Wolf howls vibrated through tunnels with estrus frequency. Feigning失控, Alyssa tore her collar—azure sludge oozing from her "73" brand containing Wolf Mother's stillborn blood crystals. Kane's collector gulped greedily as his sigil flared crimson patches.
"Estrus she-wolves intoxicate." His seven-pronged fangs glistened with seventy-two brides' samples. Bronze sarcophagi trembled below as Laine's paradox machine from Volume One materialized, decoding her DNA chain.
Alyssa pried frozen blood crystals from sacral fissures. Moonlight through the skull oculus illuminated her crushing them into the collector—three-century-old birth screams synced with Kane's heartbeat, vascular spikes erupting from the altar sigil.
"Two-way transfusion service?" She dodged spikes, hair ensnaring the pendulum. Chimes activated wall memories: Young Laine injecting Wolf Mother's blood into Kane's heart, their umbilical cords knotting.
Kane's gearsplit pupils signaled cardiac overload. Ripping open his biomechanical heart engraved "Laine Subject 73", silver womb models pumped azure sludge through connected vessels.
"Vessel modification 99%." His metallic laughter deployed seventy-two umbilical binds. "Think stale amniotic fluid can disrupt..."
Uterine explosions rumbled below. Alyssa's retrograde veins pierced his arterial lines. Blood mingling revealed Volume One's paradox scene—Laine suturing her infant umbilical cord into Kane's ventricle.
At lunar zenith, womb models detonated. Amidst blood rain, Alyssa snapped cords to expose micro-engraved Blood Matrimony: 73rd cardiac overload: Devourer becomes blood vessel Her palm manifested Kane's embryonic phantom—retroactively consuming Laine's machinery through hematological links.