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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.

Date: 2013-03-13 02:04 am (UTC)
deslandes: (⑪ earthly pleasures ♌)
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And the Beast goes right on purring, curling up closer until his head rests in her lap.

Date: 2013-03-13 02:11 am (UTC)
deslandes: (⑬ eye of the ♌)
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"...I don't know exactly," he says. "A few years. Probably more. Maybe less."

Date: 2013-03-13 02:16 am (UTC)
deslandes: (⑩ witchwood ♁)
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"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.

Date: 2013-03-13 02:19 am (UTC)
deslandes: (⑫ a killer's hands ♌)
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"Of course. Now?"

Date: 2013-03-13 03:46 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑩ witchwood ♁)
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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.

Date: 2013-03-13 04:04 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑩ witchwood ♁)
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Good guess.

The spell is very elegantly designed; the parameters for ending the curse are clear, and the open pathway for completing it is still in good order after all this time. A strong, focused emotional connection of romantic love between the Beast and anyone else will fill up the waiting power well and transform the spell, leaving the Beast in his human form again, the castle back at the edge of the forest, and both castle and forest completely unmagical.

If, on the other hand, he doesn't manage to fulfill the parameters... the pathway will close. The goal of forest and castle will turn from the complicated sorting it currently does, turning away only those people who are probably incompatible, to a simple and easy equal rejection of everyone. If there is anyone else present, it will pick them up and dump them out. The Beast will live forever in his lovely, lonely castle.

And he was wrong about how much time they have left. The ultimate deadline is in a little less than a year and a half.

Date: 2013-03-13 04:06 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑮ fangs ♌)
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The Beast growls.

Date: 2013-03-13 04:14 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑬ eye of the ♌)
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He sits down on the floor amid drifts of dessicated petals and buries his hands despairingly in his mane.

Date: 2013-03-13 04:21 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑫ a killer's hands ♌)
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"Well, we don't have much choice, do we? Except you could give up and wait it out."

Date: 2013-03-13 04:24 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑪ earthly pleasures ♌)
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"Thank you," he sighs.

Date: 2013-03-13 04:28 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑭ bloodmouth ♌)
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The Beast snorts agreement and follows.

Date: 2013-03-13 04:53 pm (UTC)
deslandes: (⑩ witchwood ♁)
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"Maybe she couldn't decide either," he suggests.

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