Moonlight clotted on lily-sap streets as Alyssa's hair coiled around fractured gas lines. Three hundred lily concentrate barrels gurgled through cellar fissures, Wolf Mother's pubic vents inhaling night winds—prime accelerant for the coming blaze.
"Crone's perfume warehouse needs clearance." She struck First Wolf King's rib against stone, sparks igniting subterranean rivers. Kane's pocketwatch shards burned her palm, projecting Subject 73001's pupil ghosts now steering through crimson smog.
Hallucinogens scaled bell towers as the castle exuded Wolf Mother's amniotic sweat. Alyssa crashed through confessional stained glass, witnessing seventy-two wolf lords replaying sacrifices in flames—hearts melted into lily nectar by "Mad King" sigils, irrigating Kane's sarcophagus throne.
"Eco-friendly recycling?" Kane's mechanized voice cut through smoke, his lupine arm's fourth eye weeping azure tears. He stomped carbonizing guard corpses, clutching Alyssa's desiccated umbilical cord: "You're torching your kin's cremated essence."
Crimson smog solidified, pinning Alyssa against cervical. Her tricentennial clone self materialized—bound to altars with lily sap poured through eye sockets, while embryonic Kane chuckled through Thorned Matrimony scraps.
At lunar zenith above the throne, Kane ripped his biomechanical arm's skin, exposing wolf milk teeth gears. Alyssa's retrograde veins pierced his artificial arteries: "You reek of expired oxytocin."
Sarcophagus resonance boomed below. Holographic Wolf Mother birthing in flames, each pubic shard detonating into new lily buds. Alyssa kicked over final barrels, fire climbing her hair toward Kane's sigils— "Mad King" brands morphing into seventy-two wolf pups devouring his exoskeleton.
"Parenting hours commence." Kane's smoke-corroded vocals lashed watch chains around her uterus. Barbed links yanked out a bite-marked bronze key—Volume One's paradox machine activator.
Moonlight drowned in smog revealed the 73rd wolf lord's specter, lily stem protruding from his heart oozing her prenatal samples.
Kane's biomechanical ribs dislodged. Alyssa's hair grayed corpse-pale. Sarcophagus seeped colostrum beneath the throne.
Someone hummed uterine lullabies in smog's depths.