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The half-man half-beast loomed over me and I saw my full self

princess xixi with pasture cloak

You had smiled at him, and in his stupor he had done nothing but loved every last little second of it—but your smile had also been sad. Faint. Curved with a personally familiar plaster of politeness as you’d bowed shortly in his direction before making your hasty retreat.

You had looked.. Almost as if…