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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.
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beheld_beauty
beheld_beauty
She doesn't need to go in. But this is where her spell will go.
She forms the intentions and the will behind Looking Upon The Past, and - sends it, thisaway.
She forms the intentions and the will behind Looking Upon The Past, and - sends it, thisaway.
deslandes
The power of Will... sparkles. Every shade of grey from black to white, glinting and swirling together in thousands of tiny motes that together make up a fluid similar to the Heart-power she used earlier.
It flows in the door, and away out of sight... and cascades out of a tower window a moment later, spilling around the covering vines.
The spell shows her the Beast as he was, as a human. Tall, handsome, just about her age, with curly brown hair almost the same colour as his mane.
He used to be a very happy person.
It flows in the door, and away out of sight... and cascades out of a tower window a moment later, spilling around the covering vines.
The spell shows her the Beast as he was, as a human. Tall, handsome, just about her age, with curly brown hair almost the same colour as his mane.
He used to be a very happy person.
beheld_beauty
Belle commits that face, that smile, to memory, and she opens her eyes.
"I wish I could draw," she says.
"I wish I could draw," she says.
beheld_beauty
"You laugh, but you were. And tall, and curly brown hair this long -" she gestures - "and smiling. You looked happy."
beheld_beauty
"Well, you were only about my age, perhaps some of this is natural growth you had left in you," she suggests. "No, I think you'd be this tall now regardless of your previous height."
beheld_beauty
"Perhaps it would be more convenient if she'd turned you beastly enough to find walking on all fours more comfortable."
beheld_beauty
"Fair enough. Is it going to be hard, when I've disenchanted the castle, to get used to being - nonbeastly again?"
beheld_beauty
"You've been human before," she points out. "...I do hope the end result doesn't involve, say, you crumbling to dust on account of being a hundred and seventeen and no longer affected by the curse?"
deslandes
"If it did," he says, "I'd still like that better than the other option. But I don't think it will."
beheld_beauty
Belle goes back to one-handed reading.
"What was channeling the spell like?" she asks after a minute.
"What was channeling the spell like?" she asks after a minute.