Checking that she had not accidently damaged it, she marked her place and smoothed her gown before hurrying to dinner.After another pleasant meal with... The Beast, she returned to the library for her evening’s reading. As she devoured chapter after chapter, night fell and her candles burned down to stubs. Then she heard the low rumble of The Beast clearing his throat behind her.“Suddenly the mystery of your tiredness is solved,” he observed dryly. “Let’s see what has so taken your fancy that you. We'll see." He kissed her gently on the lips, getting some of the blood on her face on his own, causing her to giggle before he took a tissue and wiped it off.Electra started turning, until Anthony said, "Wait ... maybe I should make a more impressive entrance." With that he closed his eyes and faded into mist that began creeping out the door.Electra sighed. "You are such a showoff, Anthony."Slowly Elizabeth opened her eyes, and sat up on the ornately lavish bed she lay on. The bedroom she was. I'm new in town." Hello Cliff. Welcome to Shadows. Call me Bill." Thanks. Thanks a lot Bill."He brought me my drink but it was busy so he did not linger. The bar was filling up. When I arrived there had been only a scattering of people around the room. Over in a corner was a mousy little thing. Not overly pretty but she had a certain charm about her. There were a few other ladies and men around the room, but for some reason she had caught my eye.She had her brunette hair in a short wave to her. We ended up her just filling the cart with stuffand me pushing the cart. At the end we had a whole cart full ofhorribly girly items. The pink sneakers, some more shoes, rainboots,Pink socks, anklet socks, white tights, all sorts of panties, a coupleof jeans with flowers embroided, tons of t-shirts, nightgowns and allsorts of other stuff. As we 'payed' the cashier looked at me quitefunny and I just kind of ignored her. We then saw Miss Parker andLauren returning with some clothes from lauren and.