Moonlight shredded by bloody lunar claw marks as Alyssa's hair garroted Kane's biomechanical throat. Altar gears gnashed synchronizing with Wolf Mother's sacral tremors—seventy-two chains pumping their blended blood toward the cranial oculus now glowing with crimson countdown: 73.
"Crone's funhouse charges admission." She rammed Sacred Blade shards through Kane's synth-skin, exposing bronze wiring beneath "Mad King" sigils. His lupine arm's stretch marks fissured to scapula, fourth eye oozing mnemonic mucus: "Sure you want to reopen tricentennial birth canal? Little harlot."
Lunar scales peeled away, each reflecting Wolf Mother's birthing agony. Alyssa's back slammed against mechanical womb casing, micro-sarcophagus hair tips piercing sigil gaps. Seven hundred thirty lycan guards knelt retching numbered umbilical rings—Laine's lab discards.
"Family bonding hour." Kane's biomechanical hand morphed into forceps clamping her distending abdomen. Moonlight through claw marks triggered sarcophagus resonance below—containing her infantile vocal cords now chanting forbidden Thorned Matrimony verses.
Alyssa's veins speared Kane's ribs, azure amniotic spray coalescing Laine's holograms: Subject 73000 activated Crimson Rift. Fusion 99% Her uterus contracted inversely, injecting blade shards into Kane's cardiac zone.
Countdown numbers dyed moonlight scarlet. Kane yanked three silver strands—activated micro-chronomachines midair, replicating Volume One's urine-corroded prototype. Wolf Mother's wails shook the altar as lunar claws dripped azure fluid.
"Crone's savepoint reeks nostalgia." Alyssa kicked melting wombs, heatwave dislodging altar tiles. Laine's projection emerged from steam waving Kane's embryonic brain slides: "Curtain call, children."
Countdown accelerated. Alyssa witnessed her clone emerging from sarcophagus clutching half a Blood Matrimony. Kane's lupine arm detached fully, seventy-two bronze umbilical cords sprouting—each strangling different-era clone heads.
Moonlight died pre-countdown. Lunar fissures oozed Wolf Mother's meconium. Resurrection howls echoed from sarcophagus.
Alyssa's hair crusted scab-red. Kane's biomechanical heart pulsed backward. Laine's projection quickened with stretch marks.
Castle corridors began birthing bronze tears.