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Belle Marie Cygne ⚜ "Rose" ([personal profile] beheld_beauty) wrote2013-03-11 10:27 pm

mes études

Belle studies magic.

It's tricky. Getting into and out of her rose-sphere is routine after a few days, but she still hasn't uncovered an explanation of how channeling works, though she's been informed that there are three options for how to do it (by herself, through a willing helper, or through an unwilling helper). Unlike the fourfold options for reaching the Dreamworld, this does not tell her how to begin fumbling towards a practical understanding, even though she can rule out the last one just on the basis of its description.

Beast can only do so a tiny bit of reading per day, and her pile of books that she can read shrinks much faster than his. She combs the library for multilingual dictionaries, so she can pick her way through the titles of the foreign-language books and at least prioritize them before handing them over.

Finally something in an obscure language that even Beast can barely read - Belle has to look up a lot of words - explains the channeling in a way she can understand.
deslandes: (④ is it my body ⚦)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The Beast wriggles happily in his chair, and when Belle opens her eyes into the real world again—

He's still there, tall and fluffy and catlike. Nothing about her perception of the real world has changed.

But... behind him, or beside him, somehow existing in exactly the same place while being simultaneously and mutually visible, there is the image of a man with a familiar face, smiling a familiar smile. He is somewhat older than seventeen, but still not yet into his prime, let alone past it. The two images move together, the Beast in physical reality and the man in the reality of true essence.

Neither image is wearing any clothing. And unlike his Beast-form, his man-form needs it.
Edited 2013-03-13 19:49 (UTC)
deslandes: (③ have you got the time ⚦)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
...He laughs.

"Where am I going to get them?"
deslandes: (⑩ witchwood ♁)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Are there clothes that would fit this body?" he says. "And it would be so uncomfortable..."

He observes Belle with her eyes closed.

"I'll go ask," he decides.
deslandes: (⑨ graveyards on your soul ⚦)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Off he goes, presumably to find and supplicate a wardrobe.



When he returns, he's wearing clothes.

Well.

One of him is.

And both of him look terribly uncomfortable.
deslandes: (⑮ fangs ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
There is a sound of tearing cloth.

"Never doing that again, then," he says.

And: "...Sorry."
deslandes: (⑪ earthly pleasures ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Does it make a difference?" he asks. "To... you?"
deslandes: (⑬ eye of the ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"You've been around a naked man for a month now," he points out. "Just a very fluffy one."
deslandes: (⑬ eye of the ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sorry," he says again.
deslandes: (⑫ a killer's hands ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"...If you're not going to look at me anyway, are you going to keep the spell?"
deslandes: (⑭ bloodmouth ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)


He drags his chair around to the other side of the table.
deslandes: (③ have you got the time ⚦)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
...Well, now he's grinning even more.
deslandes: (⑪ earthly pleasures ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
The Beast settles into his chair and takes a nap.