Neifirst: Day Before

The second life within me grows,
as every Palman mother knows,
but what happens when the one within
is a small assassin?
Could a tightened claw halt that mind
awake inside,
make it fall like a stone,
or would murder of my kin and kind
only seek to deaden my own?
My accidental birth repeats
within my accidental womb,
and coward gods who caused it all
retreat back to their garden tomb.
But can this process not be ceased?
Must this new Nei come to be?
Beneath the navel of the storm,
what manner of monster waits inside me,
preparing, planning, to be born?