Blackfeather Woods the green mile

the breadth of relmyna's world had narrowed to the dome of the whelping den; here those she held in her heart were gathered, and her instincts roared black words within her cracked mind until she had gone to ground within her own consciousness and scored his jutting hip with her fangs, until blood flooded her pale lips and she arched her plume in some sodden victory.
the next moment brought kove's hard body against her as the dark master sought to pit himself against the dybbuk
your devil
and relmyna found herself turned roughly away. it was the way of things; she faulted kove not for it, and if had been but any other creature, would have treasured in her heart the sight of his fangs bringing justice. but in the moments that followed, repugnance soured her belly. the evoker watched with a numb expression spreading like oil across her scarred features as kove tore a new gash in the devil, his assault upon the wraith full and terrible.
she stumbled backward then, the scent of the whelping den striking her senses forcefully, and turned with staring eyes to regard the spiderling who crouched with teeth bared over her wailing siblings. their cries flared in her mother's body; milk began to bead along her teats in response.
and relmyna, who would have intended to kill maegi in her woeful state had not she recognized her eldest, splayed back her black ears and drew a shuddering breath. she took a step toward the three children, one to carry her to their aid, to soothe the terror in the little priestess' two-toned eyes.
but her mind's eye saw the horrible parting of the demon's flesh from his stygian body, and as kove's teeth ripped again in her memory, so did relmyna's awareness falter. down dragged the chaos of her spider-webbed mind; the evoker collapsed in tight convulsions to the den floor, teeth locked and foam flecking her lips, until the tremour had utterly exhausted her taxed body. she lay half-conscious against the ground after, the rise of her pale flank the only evidence she lived.
and her daughters continued to scream.