Nightmare Fuel / Old West

• Grace is trapped by debris when she's trying to escape a flooding underground cave system. It is not soothing to read about how close she gets to dying from the lack of oxygen or warmth (for an ectotherm such as herself, the environment becoming extremely cold so quickly is dangerous).
• Grace eventually reveals that nine of her ten eggs were smashed by robbers. Unsurprisingly, the robbers then died, courtesy of Grace striking down upon them with great vengeance and furious anger.
• Grace is out of the blue subjected to domestic abuse by that scoundrel Benjamin Hares, much to Teddy's horror. This destroys all of Grace's sense of self-worth for a good while.
  • When Jake finds Grace at Hares' mercy, he's shocked and has a flashback of his mother lying in a pool of her own blood and his drunken father touting that little Jake's going to be a man like him. He then turns absolutely murderous and thoroughly thrashes Benjamin, and then kills him by giving him a massive overdose of venom, all the venom Jake's fangs can provide, leaving the scoundrel to die an agonizing, painful death.
• Once Jake has overpowered the three traitorous Gunslinger Court members, they reveal they brought in a ringer, the only creature he fears: a hawk. He's badly mauled by its claws before he manages to escape and hide.
  • Jake originally lost his rattle as a child to a hawk only one day after his mother was killed and he ran away. He was then caught by humans to be used in a rattlesnake round-up. Before escaping, he witnessed dozens of snakes being decapitated and skinned by a sadistic man who was the first creature Jake killed. That was the Hell from whence came Rattlesnake Jake, the Grim Reaper of the Mojave Desert.
• Grace experiences a round of fear when she discovers that Teddy has been taken from home while she was helping Beans with her burning ranch.