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“I’m tired of this ‘Beauty and the Beast’ stereotype crap.Didn’t you read the fairy tales?The beast always lets beauty go—to save the dad, to save the world, to not get killed by the bigots with the weapons.I just followed the script.”
Baba Yaga let loose a cackle that had shivers raking over Vori’s skin.“That old tale?A perversion of the original goblin queen’s propaganda watered down, and gender spun for tender human sentiments.The beauty was never her consort.Nor is it yours.Youare the beauty and the beast.You always have been.Now unleash both.”Her expression grew solemn.“Kradnovtl won’t last much longer with you gone.You have less than an hour to kill her, or we lose both realms.”
Fear gripped Vori’s heart like a goblin claw.“I have to kill her?”
“You know it’s the only way.”The hazy image of Baba Yaga glanced toward the west.“She’ll be at the place you first found her.Kill her, take the amethysts, and carry them with you through the glass.Then, your blood vows will be fulfilled.I can’t change your fate, but I wish you luck, Queen Vori.”
“You’re still set on destroying the goblin glass in this realm?”And her one lone chance at returning for Perry if he couldn’t make it back in time.
“It’s too dangerous to allow its continued existence.Petra is proof of that.”The old crone’s illusion disappeared, leaving smoke and dust in its place.
Vori swallowed the shock, the sadness, all of it.She had to be the queen Kradnovtl deserved.It was time to kill the beast.
