“I am going off to
a house
And entering it
like a snake…
I will devour
their babies
And make their
hearts ache.”
Well that sounds cheery.
Apparently Adalind and Meisner aren’t in Austria any
more, they’re in the Swiss Alps. And Adalind is giving birth to her evil royal
monster baby. And Meisner can cope with many things, all kinds of monsters and
angry royal families – but midwife he ain’t. He tells her to breath though, all
TV tells you to tell pregnant women to breath. Presumably they forget if you don’t.
It doesn’t help that her telekinesis throws things at him. The baby is born and
Adalind woges – a hexenbiest again. Meisner tells Renard about Adalind’s new
baby girl and Renard has a little happy smile. But Meisner’s going to have to
camp for a while since the cabin is unreachable by car – and Adalind is hardly
up to hiking.
When Adalind is asleep, Meisner covers her with a blanket
and brushes her hair – which coils around his hand, the creepy baby watching
him with creepy purple eyes. Did I mention creepy?
In Portland we have a happy couple including one very
pregnant lady going to bed. Outside a monstrous thing – like Gollum with better
self-esteem – crawls up a tree to her upstairs window, nudges open the sash and
stick a super-long tongue inside. It creeps under the covers, into the bed and
stabs into the woman’s pregnant stomach. She, rather understandably, screams.
She pulls it off her and tries to crawl off the bed but the creature crawls
inside to attack again. She manages to slash the creature’s tongue with a shard
of poverty, driving it off, as a passing neighbour hears her screams and rushes
to help.
She calls the police which is picked up by Wu and his
partner (I don’t know whether to envy or pity Wu’s partner for all the snark he
must endure) – and they rush into action especially since the pregnant woman,
Dana, is Wu’s friend. They arrive and try to help Dana while the EMTs arrive,
she manages to gasp “Aswang” (a Filipino vampire/were-wolf-like creature that
eats foetuses). Wu is also there to hold her husband, Sam back and offer what
comfort he can.
Wu greets Nick and Hank and they realise Wu knows the
family – Wu’s a little off because Sam and Dana came to Portland at his
recommendation. At the scene they see the obvious blood trail out the window,
the tree the creature climbed – and the claw marks on the windowsill. The
neighbour who rushed to help describes a “ticking” sound.
At the hospital it turns out the foetus is ok – but most
of the amniotic fluid has been drained; but she will be fine and replace it.
The doctor describes the wound and that it was surprisingly careful to do as
little damage as possible – but beyond stem cell research has no idea what
amniotic fluid would be for. They question Sam with Wu’s help but don’t get anything
relevant; wu is clearly upset and they agree to keep him informed.
