HERE SHE SITS, perched elegantly on a BENCH in the garden, watching the snow fall. Perhaps she shouldn’t be out here, perhaps she should’ve STAYED INSIDE — but he never said she COULDN’T venture outside, and so she has. Slipped out and found somewhere to sit in the GUST OF WINDS that bring the snow down. ( While the storm has let up a tiny bit, cold not bothering her or not, it’s no condition to travel in regardless. ) Her eyes are trained UPWARDS, fixed on the flurries when she hears his footsteps coming towards her.
She stays SILENT, even as he sits down beside her. Merely lets the silence linger for a few moments.
“I always liked the way the SNOW FALLS,” she says softly, finally. Her voice is MELODIC, a soothing elegant tone that feels like a KULNING waiting to happen. Perhaps it is, a readiness to call to the spirits at a MOMENTS NOTICE. “It makes everything so QUIET —beautiful. Like putting a blanket over the entire world.”
Cogsworth had told him their guest had wandered out to the garden, but information was not news, for he had already known. DISTRUST still high, the Beast had been keeping tabs on the princess, asking the enchanted mirror to show her to him every now and then, but this was the first time he decided to actually venture out to truly see her and check up on her, not just watch her through a pane of magical glass.
She sat on the same bench he usually found himself on, a place he took respite in when days seemed too much, he figures there is enough room that he might as well join her. The garden is the Beast favorite part of the castle, it's the only part that still seems alive, the only part that didn’t really transform into a twisted version of itself. Usually it was filled with roses, but roses are now covered with the same snow that sticks to fur, suffering through the same cold that stings. At least the Beast has a thick fur coat, or freeze of the continuing storm would have cut him to the core.
He sits and stares out at the falling flakes, unsure what to say, just waiting for the silence to break. When it does, head nods, inclined to agree. He did not mind the snow, it, like rain, was calming to him. He couldn’t quite see the beauty in it, but he certainly enjoyed the quiet. -- - - ❝ Yes, it’s . . . nice. ❞ there’s a pause, a feeling as if he should say more but unsure how to continue, it has been quite some time since he’s participated in small talk. -- - - ❝ But . . . hopefully the storm will be over soon. ❞