The Sentinels some used your na[m]e for glory, some used it for their gain

She had not heard him. Too intent was she to pluck the child from her bassinet of thorns that she did not heed the new stillness as one of danger. Wednesday thought she herself to be the danger; she had forgotten entirely about Donnelaith and its wolves as she thought of herself, of her love, of the babe she would bring to her. Ah! Sweet thoughts. The death of a child was worth the happiness of her love; she did not care a thing for youth and naivety, or the laughter of a cub. She cared only for the pleasure she would bring to her countess. To the token she would show Ferahgo, a reason she had been gone.

Her grip was ginger upon the babe when she caught her. A gentle tug would pull her nearer, but it was then she was forced to release when the body of another caught her. Wednesday had not even seen him! And could not struggle to get away! Desperately she sought to reach his daughter again; if Wednesday could clutch her throat as this man gripped for the perfect spot upon her own, she might be spared for sparing the cub! And so a hostage would be needed.

Wednesday would not survive this, she knew. But she thrust herself against the man in a parry, hardly a deterrent, so that she might howl to the one she loved, bid her adieu! Throat exposed, it was all but his, so when he caught it, she tried her hand, dove toward the babe in the thorns, and felt the fangs of Lasher against her windpipe to catch her mad fall. Still Wednesday drove her weight down. She wanted her body to fall upon the thorny castle the babe rest within. She wanted to smother the little sleeping thing. If her love could not look upon this angel, could not have her, no one would.

She choked against his grip, and jerked within it like the madwoman she was.

The thorns were strong. They stabbed her, and did not crumple beneath her hefty weight try though she might. She bled, and the seen was macabre and terrible to look upon as rivers of red sprinkled themselves all around the babe she had coveted for her heart.