cyrus fought with the thing , scraping against the arms of sloan 's wife , but they would not budge , and as she looked at me and grinned with her fishhook teeth cutting her lips , she slowly and delicately , as though placing the last ace atop a four-tier card castle , pierced her teeth into cyrus 's lily white neck , as he - for the first time in my entire life - screamed like a mortal man .