beheld_beauty: (Default)
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: (⑭ bloodmouth ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
"There are few things worse than being forced to do something I would have wanted to do anyway," he says, "and one of them is when someone else is being forced to help."
Edited 2013-03-13 01:46 (UTC)
deslandes: (⑫ a killer's hands ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Mm," he rumbles. "Being forced to do something I don't want to do is another of the worse things."
deslandes: (⑪ earthly pleasures ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
He snorts softly.
deslandes: (⑬ eye of the ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 01:55 am (UTC)(link)




After a little while, he gets out of his chair and curls up on the floor at her feet.
deslandes: (⑭ bloodmouth ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, he liiikes that. Purr purr purr.
deslandes: (⑪ earthly pleasures ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
And the Beast goes right on purring, curling up closer until his head rests in her lap.
deslandes: (⑬ eye of the ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
"...I don't know exactly," he says. "A few years. Probably more. Maybe less."
deslandes: (⑩ witchwood ♁)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
"There's a rose under glass at the top of the tower in this wing," he says. "It loses petals slowly - the floor is covered in them. When the last petal falls..." He shrugs.
deslandes: (⑫ a killer's hands ♌)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course. Now?"
deslandes: (⑩ witchwood ♁)

[personal profile] deslandes 2013-03-13 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The Beast leads her up to the top of the tower, to a small round room whose floor is covered in dried and scattered rose petals. In the very center of the room, a round table seems to have a sprawling rosebush growing straight out of the middle, under an arched glass dome that attaches to the rim of the table by many slender legs.

There is only one flower on the bush still standing tall and hanging onto a full crown of petals. A few of the rest, drooping off in all directions, still claim a petal or two.

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 16:04 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 16:06 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 16:14 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 16:21 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 16:24 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 16:28 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 16:53 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:02 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:05 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:22 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:29 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:34 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:36 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:39 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:43 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:46 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:51 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:54 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 17:58 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 18:00 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 18:02 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 18:06 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 18:15 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 18:38 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 18:50 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 18:56 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 18:59 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 19:01 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 19:02 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 19:08 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 19:53 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 20:01 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 20:05 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 20:10 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 20:14 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 20:19 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 20:22 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 20:24 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 20:26 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 20:48 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 20:51 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

[personal profile] deslandes - 2013-03-13 20:53 (UTC) - Expand