(13th June, 20:33, New Moon)
Beast and the Beast
Chapter Two – The realization of Fate
(Please note this story has vast similarities to Beauty and the Beast, yet I claim no ownership over Beauty and the Beast, only my inspiration is stolen from the movie/book.)
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Sakai didn't know for how long she had cried but it felt like her body had nothing left to give and it left her exhausted and terrified. She had never before been terrified and she felt like she was in a void, like everything around her wasn't real. She knew she wouldn't wake up from this nightmare, but she hoped she would non-the-less.
She stood up and refused to look down at herself, refused to look in the shards of mirror lying around and refused to look at any reflective surface, she had no need to acknowledge the way she looked. The most important thing she remembered was that the woman said she would be herself on a full moon, from sundown till sunrise.
She wasn't sure whether it was a gift or a curse to be able to see herself normally for one night, to be reminded of what she had lost because of her cruel words to a woman she really wished she could kill at the very moment.
She should never have opened the door! She should've pretended she was asleep and refused to acknowledge that the woman was outside the door, seeking shelter.
Who was the old hag to even think she would give her shelter? Did she look like an inn? WHO was the old woman to dictate to her how her soul should look when she barely interacted with people to start with?
She sighed and decided she didn't care, she would never be able to love and she had no intention of trying, if she had to live out the rest of her days as a reptile beast she would, it would only make people stay away from her with a new passion!
The old witch actually helped her! Now she wouldn't be forced to interact with people! They would run at the sight of her!
With a laugh she decided to go to bed, the thought was pleasant and she hoped it would last her through her years, she knew tonight was a New Moon, so it was four days until a full moon showed its face and she could be normal again, for a few hours.
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Mara was standing outside the house, she had been listening to the reaction of Sakai for the last few hours and came to the conclusion that the girl was further away from redemption than she had realized, there was no love in her heart and no compassion for another.
She didn't know how long it would take the girl to come to terms with herself and give in to the gift of compassion, the gift of loving another and not being alone.
She had not expected to find someone like this on her travels to Lut Gholeim, she had seen many cold hearted people but she has never, in all her travels, come upon someone with such a dark soul.
The transformation of Sakai befitted her, for her heart was as dead as that of a reptile's, surviving on the bare minimum emotions to survive and it had made her a monster. Mara had been survived when the girl had tried to attack her and that was when she had made her choice to lay the curse upon her.
"May God be with you." Mara said as she continued with her journey towards Lut Gholeim, she would see to the girl every now and again, to see her progress, to see whether the curse was causing any emotions in her.