Selma Payne's POV:
This was a complex problem that had no solution.
Which was more important, to Mullwica; her own life or her only daughter?
The answer was self-evident. This woman, who had been wandering for half her life, finally chose her daughter and gave up on herself.
I even suspected that she accepted the fate of being beheaded by her son because she could have a legitimate reason to replace her daughter's eyes with hers. In this way, her daughter would not have to bear the suffering and sin in her heart and could live a normal life with her mother's silent gift until the end of her life.
However, she didn't expect the devil to interfere and turn her family into the victims of the tragedy.