When the thorns of the contract array pierced Elvira's palm, she smelled the smell of rotten milk powder. Eric's wolf fangs were stuck in her mouth, and saliva mixed with black blood dripped into the center of the array, burning holes in Selena's childhood graffiti on the stone slab.
"Bite it through," she said, grasping the fur at the back of Eric's neck. "Unless you want to be her pet wolf forever."
Moonlight leaked through the broken dome, illuminating the marks of the double contract in Eric's pupils - the part belonging to Selina was eroding the last of his humanity.
(In the secret compartment, Lila's fingernails dug into the family tree on the wall, which was bleeding. The moment her palm prints overlapped with the fingerprints of the first generation of the family, all the names of "Lila" suddenly moved to the eldest daughter column, and Selina's birth year jumped seven years later.)
The moment the wolf's fangs pierced the metacarpal bone, Elvira heard the crisp sound of the ice breaking. The contract thorns grew wildly from her wounds, along Eric's esophagus and into his stomach. He spasmed and vomited a thorny blood ball, which contained Selina's milk tooth communicator.
"Fuck..." Eric's voice mixed with the howling of wolves, "What did you mix with the blood?"
"A souvenir extracted from Lucas's magma." Elvira pressed her injured palm against the contract mark on his heart. "I heard that high temperature disinfection is the most thorough."
The mixed blood seeped into the cracks in the stone slab, and the family tree was suddenly projected across the entire dome. Lila's name burned in the list of family heads, and Selina's file began to shatter automatically.
When Lila broke open the door to the secret room, the dome was collapsing. The burning fragments of the spectrum fell on her shoulders, burning out the emblem of the first head of the family.
"You are the legitimate heir!" Eric coughed out the thorns of the contract, "Selena tampered with..."
The entire stone statue hall suddenly shook. Lucas's magma shell cracked and peeled off, revealing a pale human arm underneath, with five fingers tightly clasping Avella's bleeding wrist.
"Let go!" Elvira kicked the statue's base, "Dead people should lie still..."
Lucas's remaining magma left eye suddenly turned, and his Adam's apple rolled under the cooled volcanic rock and he uttered a breath: "Key...key..."
Eric suddenly transformed into a wolf and pounced behind Lila - Selena's voiceprint was repeating her childhood nightmare in the ventilation duct.
Selina's projection stepped over the thorns of the contract, and her hair swept across the flames of the family tree: "Dear sister, do you like your birthday surprise?"
Lila picked up the burning fragments of the spectrum: "This great gift should be burned for yourself."
The flames suddenly take shape into the outline of the crib. The projection flashes back in the fire:
Selena was five years old. She replaced Lila's birthday cake with an electric shock device. With the same trembling hands, she applied a cold towel to Lila, who had a high fever. In the dark closet, the young girl Selena bit her fingertips and carved "Save Me" on the wooden board.
Eric smashed the projector, but the wolf's claws tore apart the entity - Selina's real body fell from the ventilation duct, with Lila's infancy milk teeth necklace hanging on her chest.
Lucas's arms suddenly exerted force, pulling Ivy into the broken chest of the stone statue. In the cooling lava cocoon, his half-human, half-stone body was bleeding: "...The contract is reversed..."
Selena took the opportunity to pierce Lila's collarbone with her milk tooth necklace: "Now we are real sisters."
Elvira felt Lucas's unpetrified heart in the lava cocoon, and the beating frequency was synchronized with Lila's scream. She bit her tongue and smeared the blood on his eyelids: "Wake up! Your puppy tricks should end!"
Lucas's right eye suddenly focused, and the remaining magma faded from his fingertips. His stiff thumb rubbed the bite wound on Elvira's palm, drawing an inverted pentagram in the pool of blood - the missing central totem of the family tree.
Postscript: Colostrum Feeding
At dawn, Lila found a genealogy stele reshaped by lava in the ruins of the altar. All the marks of "Selena" were covered by thorns, and a bullet shell with tooth marks appeared next to her original baby footprint fossil.
Elvira put a chain on Lucas's unpetrified right glove. The chain buckle was the first stolen item he gave her. Whenever the moonlight shifted, blood would flow under his cooled magma skin and gather in his palm to form an unfinished sentence.
The latest trace is: Don't believe it
It always starts to fade when the bell tower strikes one.