Pretty brutal. It's good to put some "punk" into your steampunk. Is there any reason wy a mechanical beast needs to eat like that?

Should this be tagged "vore" too?

You're writing this at above NaNoWritMo speed so far, which is impressive.

Revenge fantasy on Ms. Springwarden, and pure stubbornness to NOT have Eve run on steam power. She can still wind herself or be wound up, though over time developed a preference to the faster method. ...plus, it means he's more likely to open her up to clean her insides, and she rather likes that.

Eh, could be, but it's not really a focus. She's just hunting, and the only reason she doesn't bite and tear is because she wants as much of her fuel as possible to actually make it to processing.

Thanks! That's the goal, heh. My style of writing is ill-suited to one, long story, so instead I do a bunch of prompt-a-days and aim to average over 1700/day. You can check out the stuff I wrote last year in my Smaugust 2020 folder ^.==.^