The Beast
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I cry out and run into his arms. They close around me so tightly I am lifted off my feet. I can hardly breathe but I do not care. “Finally,” he says against my hair with so much feeling I want to weep with happiness.
“You’ve earned this, humans,” the Faery queen says, her voice softer now. “A thousand times you’ve paid for my daughter’s folly and so I give you a gift worth a thousand times more: Love.”
He sets me on my feet again and his smile is resplendent with happiness. His kiss banishes the bitter chill and fills me with joy I never thought I’d feel again. And then he lifts me and spins me around until I squeal with laughter, and he laughs with me.
It is over.
We are free.
The End
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Alianne is an avid lover of stories of all kinds. Having grown up with fairy tales in a place where it almost seemed they were real, it was no surprise when she began making up her own stories. She loves books, hiking, archery, and won’t shy away from travel and zip lining Alianne graduated with a business degree and when she’s not off in the land of fantasy, she lives in California.
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