THE BEAST WHO LOVED ME
"I have very little strength left, Alistair. What you're seeing now — this shape, this voice — it's costing me the last of what I am. I won't be able to do this again.
So hear me, both of you, because I will not get another chance to say it."
"Say it, then." My voice cracked despite myself.
"The kingdom that sent you here—" Her eyes found mine again, and something in them made my stomach drop before she'd even finished the sentence. "—is not sending an army because they fear the beast.
They're sending an army because they fear what happens if the beast becomes a man again. A monster in a tower is contained. A prince with his power restored, and nothing left to lose, is not."