"Oh, is that all," The Beast rolls his head back at an angle to look at them without fully turning back to them. "Well, answer me this. How am I suppose to feel when HE is all over this woman who I know nothing about other than she's a beast like me, hmm? Don't you think I had a bit of a right to be upset when it was upsetting my Little Bird?"

"Don't play games!" Dia finds himself taking an angry step forward before he can stop himself, "I'm tired of this! I'm tired of you ruling our lives! I'm tired of being the one who has to comfort him because you've used his body to hurt me again and then left it for him to fix!"

The Beast finally turns to face them, his face deadly serious, "Oh really, Little Bird? Is that so. And here I thought you rather enjoyed those particular acts of penance. Isn't that what you called them? A way to pay for your sins? And then he could mak...

"Shut up! Stop lying! I nev- I...."