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The Beast purrs and snuggles up affectionately.

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"It's going to bother me if she just goes on not liking me. She likes you, doesn't she? How'd you do it?" Chelise asks after a long conversational lull.

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"I don't know," he says with a fluffy shrug. "Maybe I didn't. Maybe it just is."

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"Just is?"

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"Maybe she likes me because I am who I am."

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"Well - yes, but how did you demonstrate it, what did you do? If she only likes people because of who they are and not anything they do I might just be doomed, mightn't I?"

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"I don't know," says the Beast.

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"I don't think I could bear it! In a village I could just avoid anyone I didn't get along with, but there are only three of us here!"

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He snuggles her and sighs.

"Do you want me to go talk to her again?"
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"Would you?"

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"All right."

But first snuggles.
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Chelise snuggles back.

(She sighs to herself, though.)
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All right, all right. Off he goes.

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Belle is, predictably, reading a book on magic.

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Of course she is.

"Chelise is unhappy because you don't like her," he announces.
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"What do you want me to do about it?" sighs Belle, marking her spot in the book and closing it.

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"I don't know," he says. "She wants me to find out how to get you to like her, I think."

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"Do you really think I ought to be spending time on that when there's so much magic to learn? I suppose I can talk to her when I need a break, but as far as I can tell her only characteristic is that she wants to be liked."

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"If it takes you time, then no," he says. "I think you should spend exactly as much time on it as you want to."

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"I'd be perfectly content to avoid her, honestly."

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He shrugs, and curls up on the floor with his head in her lap.

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She pets him and reopens her book.

It's only a few minutes before Chelise can be observed peeping around the edge of the library door.
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The Beast observes her!

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Belle ignores her.

Chelise takes in the scene, then sniffs once and turns to run from the library.
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The Beast sighs.

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