checking out games for beast, maybe.

[delaisse]

Who would want me around when I'm like this? I — I don't understand how you expect me to show my face!

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[cursedtosleep]

I am very real, as are you. You can make it happen, if you believe in it.

[delaisse]

You have a very positive outlook, mademoiselle.

[cursedtosleep]

My dearest and closest friends are animals. They are kind and sweet but many would disregard them as vermin or nuisances. [Well, that and love tends to make 16 year-old's giddy.] Being beautiful is not as important as the beauty of your dreams and heart.

[delaisse]

[ Evidently, that's not the right thing to say and his hackles rise. Even a loose comparison, casually tossed in like that ... ]

I'm not an animal. Don't pair me with the small-minded creatures you know!

[cursedtosleep]

Do not call my friends simple minded. You don't like being judged so do not do the same.

[delaisse]

I'm no mere animal, that's my point. I don't care if you know a whole forest of the things, they aren't one and the same with me!

[cursedtosleep]

I did not say you were an animal. I said nothing of the sort. What I was said was that my friends are animals and people will call them simple minded. But that isn't the truth because they are smart and kind.

[delaisse]

I'm not a smart animal, in that case. I'm nothing at all like them and I don't need to be compared to your friends.

[cursedtosleep]

You needn't yell, I hear you fine. But I apologize, as well, if you felt insulted.

[delaisse]

I was!

[cursedtosleep]

I'm sorry for that then.

[delaisse]

Hmph.

[cursedtosleep]

But I'm not wrong, you are not a horrible monster or ugly.

[delaisse]

Thank you.

[cursedtosleep]

You're welcome.

[delaisse]

[ Pouting at the silence. How does he girl??? ]

[cursedtosleep]

[She's not so bothered by silence, but you could ask for her name, Beast.]

[delaisse]

[ But she's so pretty! He'll ruin this somehow. ]

Are you ... Do you often talk to strangers?

[cursedtosleep]

I must admit, my aunts said I shouldn't speak to strangers. But if I hadn't, then I wouldn't have met Philip, or you.

[delaisse]

Who's Philip?

[cursedtosleep]

Philip is my husband.

[delaisse]

[ Oh, of course she's married. Why wouldn't she be? ]

You must be very happy together.

[cursedtosleep]

[Hey now, you get your own true love Beast, don't try to take Philip's.]

Oh yes! He's showing me all around our kingdoms.

[delaisse]

[ Welp, kind of waiting to meet Belle. ]

You have two?

[cursedtosleep]

Well, it should be one soon, I think. He is the prince of his and then there is my own kingdom. I'm afraid I don't know much of politics, however.