INTERLUDE

A FEW MINUTES BEFORE THE BELLS WERE RUNG

Belle who had still been reeling from her new found discovery of Jasmine being her cousin and rightful heir to the throne could hardly breathe.

After her humiliating confrontation with Aurora and even Jasmine who had been so rude to her, she sadly sat down on her bed and mused while her mother made some potions.

"Don't pout." Her mother said. "It makes you look ugly."

Belle pushed her face away. "You have no idea what it means to have everything you knew belonged to you threatened in a split second because of a nobody mother."

"Oh I do know what it feels like." Her mother said. "Remember that I killed my sister."

Belle blinked. "Mother you really did that?"