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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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deslandes
He wraps his arms around her and kisses her again.
Then he murmurs in her ear, "Your papa is crying."
Then he murmurs in her ear, "Your papa is crying."
beheld_beauty
"I know. Don't tell him, he'll be embarrassed."
And presently, "Let's go home and start looking through books, shall we?"
And presently, "Let's go home and start looking through books, shall we?"
beheld_beauty
There are a lot of books. Belle winds up emptying the food bag completely to replace its contents with books, simply so they don't overflow the house with books that are not the books they are looking for.
Eventually she has her supply of magic books extracted. Including those that are in foreign languages. "You can read again without hurting your eyes, I assume," she observes.
Eventually she has her supply of magic books extracted. Including those that are in foreign languages. "You can read again without hurting your eyes, I assume," she observes.
beheld_beauty
Belle hands him one of the foreign language books that they never got around to categorizing, and then consults her index for which of the categorized books is most likely to contain castle-building instructions.
beheld_beauty
Eventually Belle finds something. "Here we are," she says. "I think if I do this right, I can even get it to organize the library in the process. I do need to design the layout, though, and decide what it should look like."
beheld_beauty
"Is that your only preference on the subject?" laughs Belle.
deslandes
"I don't know, I've never been married before," he laughs. "Is there a reason not to?"
beheld_beauty
"No, not really," she says. "Does the size of the old castle sound about right to you?" She's gotten out a notebook and begun to sketch a floorplan.
beheld_beauty
Sketch sketch sketch. "The spell will be able to fill in a lot of little details by itself, and it'll be alive the way the old one was so it'll be easy to change. We could put it some fifteen minutes' walk into the woods and live there tonight."
beheld_beauty
"Yes, the alternative is having the wedding night with just a wall between us and Charlie," she murmurs with a nervous smile.
beheld_beauty
It is! It is a good moment to hug her! She relaxes against him.
"You're going to have to show me how it goes," she murmurs. "I have read more books than my father knows about, but not as many as it would take to actually set him on fire with distress."
"You're going to have to show me how it goes," she murmurs. "I have read more books than my father knows about, but not as many as it would take to actually set him on fire with distress."
deslandes
"Well," he says, "I am glad your father is not on fire, and I will be happy to show you everything I know."