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Belle studies. She really doesn't get as lonely as Beast - and maybe he and Chelise can fall in love if she stays out of their way, and then the curse will break and Belle can ransack the library and go home, that would be fine. She works.
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beheld_beauty
"She might come out of her room eventually," Belle points out.
beheld_beauty
Belle nibbles her lip a bit.
She nods.
She snuggles up to Beast and picks up the book she was in the middle of.
She nods.
She snuggles up to Beast and picks up the book she was in the middle of.
beheld_beauty
It's hours later, but Chelise does emerge.
She peers into the library, and shrinks back as soon as she's gotten a glimpse but not before the occupants can see her if they aren't trying to read.
She peers into the library, and shrinks back as soon as she's gotten a glimpse but not before the occupants can see her if they aren't trying to read.
beheld_beauty
Chelise can be seen trying to leave the castle, again, and again, and again, over the course of the next few days.
Belle looks up a personal ward, and casts it on herself (through Beast, with his permission) and spares Chelise no further thought.
Belle looks up a personal ward, and casts it on herself (through Beast, with his permission) and spares Chelise no further thought.
deslandes
Even with the personal ward on, the Beast hardly strays out of sight of Belle, and never farther than the other side of a door.
beheld_beauty
After Belle notices that Beast has been sleeping in the hallway outside her room overnight, she says he may as well join her in her bed as long as he isn't the sort to toss and turn.
Chelise continues trying to leave, and she can be heard sobbing every time she fails, if one is close enough to the part of the gardens that the forest has directed her back to.
Then this activity stops.
Chelise continues trying to leave, and she can be heard sobbing every time she fails, if one is close enough to the part of the gardens that the forest has directed her back to.
Then this activity stops.
deslandes
The Beast doesn't know if he's the sort to toss and turn, but he tries it, and it turns out he is the sort to cuddle up close and then not move much.
When Chelise stops trying to leave, he notices.
When Chelise stops trying to leave, he notices.
beheld_beauty
Belle does not object to being cuddled during mutual sleep. In fact, she rather likes it.
She notices when Chelise stops trying to leave, too, though it takes her longer.
"...Do you suppose she's given up," she asks one day, "or that something's happened to her?"
There's no ambiguity about who "she" is.
She notices when Chelise stops trying to leave, too, though it takes her longer.
"...Do you suppose she's given up," she asks one day, "or that something's happened to her?"
There's no ambiguity about who "she" is.
deslandes
"If she's dead and in this castle somewhere, we'd best find her before she starts to rot," he points out.
beheld_beauty
"...And I suppose until you're sure she's dead you won't just leave me somewhere and go looking on your own."
beheld_beauty
Chelise isn't hard to find.
She's dangling from the rafters in her room.
There's a note. Belle's not looking, though.
She's dangling from the rafters in her room.
There's a note. Belle's not looking, though.