Ariana’s father ruined her. If you hurt her or scare her, the beast will attack. It is dangerous.” “So am I,” I told her. “It was afraid of her father and could not disobey him,” she said. “But her father is no more, and it will do anything to protect her. Anything. And nothing you are is sufficient to protect yourself from it.” She meant it. I could smell her fear of the beast inside her lady.
