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Prompt: 020. Beauty and the Beast
1. The horror of the curse that changed the Young Master into a beast was that it had affected everyone in the palace. Transformed against their will, they were forced to suffer while their employer failed to break the curse.
A. The horror of the curse that changed the Young Master into a beast was that it had affected everyone in the palace. Transformed against their will, they were forced to suffer while their employer failed to break the curse.
Invisible and voiceless, anchored to the property with no ability to leave, they could only watch and wait as the Young Master began to lose his grasp on his humanity. The longer he remained in his changed form, the more he lost himself to the instincts of a beast.
2. She’d been turned into a hairy monster with fangs, claws, and an inability to control herself. Cursed by a traveling wizard, she’d been living in the guest house behind a large empty house.
A. She’d been turned into a hairy monster with fangs, claws, and an inability to control herself. Cursed by a traveling wizard, she’d been living in the guest house behind a large empty house. Far away from family and friends, she’d survived as best she could without working thumbs.
The first time she caught a rabbit and killed it with her claws, she’d wept. Now it was an everyday occurrence to feast on rabbit, mice, squirrels, and whatever else she could catch. Fruits and vegetables had lost all appeal, and hazel nuts had made her retch. She missed the person she used to be.
Her left ear swiveled before she was consciously aware of hearing anything. There was a clatter of feet and the slamming of a door. Slinking through the underbrush, she peered toward the main house and saw lights and movement through the windows.
3. Beauty and the Beast is his favorite picture book. Every night he holds the book up and makes pleading eyes until whoever’s tucking him in agrees to read it.
A. Beauty and the Beast is his favorite picture book. Every night he holds the book up and makes pleading eyes until whoever’s tucking him in agrees to read it.
“You’re really going to have to start reading this for yourself,” his lover said.
“Not when I’ve got one of you to read it to me,” he said with his most charming smile. It earned him a slanted glance, but cuddled up in the blankets he didn’t care as his book was read to him in a low-voice that sent shivers of delight up and down his spine.
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