Beauty and the Alpha Beast
They lift their arms toward the night sky, and in a shimmer of moonlight and fur, a magnificent silver-coated stag emerges, its antlers glowing with ancient runes that pulse like a heartbeat.
Draped across the stag’s broad chest is a harness woven from twisting ivy and delicate threads of gold. Behind him, the greenhouse seems to come alive, as a great pumpkin nestled among the vines rolls across the threshold and over to the stag. From the pumpkin, a carriage blossoms, its sides growing thick with bark and leaves, windows sparkling like crystal, and wheels unfolding quietly from roots that curl and twist.
“Go to the ball, my child,” the kind old woman says in a voice gentle as a sigh. “Have
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