The Beast's Ugly Wife
However, that moment came and went, leaving me exhausted as usual, and disillusioned…
Until I realized that I wasn't just imagining a pair of hands in mine, as usual.
There was actually someone else there with me.
I opened my eyes, but to my surprise, I didn't find darkness. At least not complete darkness. The veins in the walls made of that strange stone were… Lit? Like a crystal reflecting the moonlight itself, even though that chamber was probably the place furthest from the sky in that entire pack.
And, in the midst of that strange brightness, almost too ethereal to be true, I found myself before the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, but who was not a stranger to me.