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[ there's a bit of an admiring perking up when puck comes into view. alois notices those elegant ears straight away, though he remains quiet and listening. '—was nothing short of a monster', puck gets to, and the boy's visage sinks back into the plushness beneath. when his turn arrives, he tucks his arms under the pillow and sits up with it, folding his knees around it before settling a cheek against the top as he considers how to follow up. ]
"—in the light of day—not that light could penetrate through the black of the castle, of course, but day still came and it still made itself known in the same way you know the sun's come up without evening having yet opened the curtains—she took on the shape of an ugly and gruesome rat, with long, sharp, and puke-yellow teeth. And, because she was wretched, and vain, and stupid—"
[ folded legs and pillow drop, his brows are knit. ]
And, really, if she's so shitty her father should have just spared everyone and killed her when she did come of age. It would have been much easier than troubling himself so she would end up with nothing, as though it's some great big lesson, and she'll have an epiphany not to be such a black-hearted little cunt anymore. 'How to be beautiful on the inside' is the worst fucking lesson, because all of us are jam packed with manure on the inside. There isn't any getting around it.
"—so the dumb little bitch would look at her nasty, beady little rodents eyes in the mirror, and she would howl in her keening little rat voice about how ugly she was, and in spite of everything, it only made her want to grate her claws over any face she came across. Not that she came across many, or ever had, or—"
[ he frowns. ] ... How can he possibly know she's horrible if she's been kept there all that time? "No one will ever love her now." [ in the next moment, he's clamping the pillow back against his frame, and leaning forward, all earnest. ]
Oh, someone has to fall in love with her, now. Black-hearted things need it most. Even the Wolf loved Little Red Riding Hood in the only way he knew how.