yes, there is beauty

[jovahs_heiress]

Angela stops at Milliways on her way home, Micaiah in tow. She cannot force the door to Beast's world, not with any coin she carries, but she leaves a note at Bar for him, asking that he go to the tower out back and identify himself to Jane. There's nothing else they can do for him. Belle, of course, will get a key if she goes to the bar.

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[deslandes]

Beast sniffles and cuddles closer, wrapping his arms around her and nestling his head in her lap.

[autokinetic]

"...Okay. My kinda magic is good at some things, but I don't know anything about the kind of damage we're looking at, here; I'll try if we don't have a better idea, but it's always possible to word a wish wrong and minds are delicate. You think you can do it? You can fix him if you have somebody to - channel through?"

[beheld_beauty]

"I - yes, but it hurts the channel. If it didn't I could channel it through myself, but I have to focus on the spell at the same time."

[pythbox]

"Does it do anything other than hurt?" says Sue. "I mean, does the channel have to know what they're doing? Because I can do hurting."

[beheld_beauty]

"To a willing channel, no, it does nothing but hurt and they don't need to know the details." She combs her fingers through Beast's hair. "To a willing channel."

[pythbox]

"Okay," shrugs Sue. "Hit me."

[beheld_beauty]

Belle blinks, and glances between Sue and Beast, and then bites her lip, thinks, and reaches for Sue's mindscape.

[pythbox]

It's a huge cube-shaped room with more cubes floating in the middle, and it opens up to welcome her.

[beheld_beauty]

Belle has been thinking about ways to heal Beast for hours now. She takes a moment to make sure of her design, and slams Heart power through the curiously-designed mindscape to restore Beast to his original state as best she can.

[pythbox]

The bright flowing colours shine out the gates of the battleroom.

Sue leans on Aegis and populates his coin-chain with hexagons.

[deslandes]

Beast's mindscape still looks pretty well blasted, but the structure is coming back; the castle is building itself up again.

He stops crying and cuddles into Belle's lap with a sigh.

[beheld_beauty]

"Mon cœur?" Belle asks softly, and she peers around his mindscape, watching it progress into a more intact state.

[deslandes]

"You fixed it," he murmurs, smiling.

She didn't. Not fully.

[beheld_beauty]

"Not all the way," she says. "There's still - here and there - I can see it. But it's better." She draws him into a tight hug.

[deslandes]

"I love you," he says, hugging back. "Ma belle."

[beheld_beauty]

"I love you, mon cœur." She swallows. "We have - visitors."

[deslandes]

"I know, my love," he says. "I brought one."

[pythbox]

Sue smiles and waves.

[beheld_beauty]

"...This is like that dream you had, years ago, except didn't you say the other me had wings?" Belle says.

[autokinetic]

"There's a bunch of us," Aegis says. "One of 'em does have wings."

[pythbox]

"She does! They're pretty," says Sue. "Do you know why your mind's so spiky?"

[beheld_beauty]

"Because it is covered in rosethorns," says Belle.

[pythbox]

"...Okay," says Sue. "Do you mind if I tap it again? That was kind of fun."

[beheld_beauty]

"I have no idea if it will harm you to do so. The only other person to run afoul of my dreamworld's temper did not survive long after making that mistake." She is holding onto her Beast rather protectively.

[pythbox]

"That sounds like a no," he observes.