Ravensblood Forest yon lanmè nwa

pain. pain overtook fear, overtook all. 
mireille's mouth widened again in a cry, the contractions pulsing in hard crushes; she gasped and writhed, and thought surely;
oh
agony! blood! the obsidian screamed to her mothers' lwa and bore down.
another child, little @Veniel, born beneath the tremulousness of mireille's wavering plea.
run! run, chani! run!
and now — now the red woman drifted beneath the halo of her pain.