HALLOWEEN ROMANTASY | The Masque Pt 2: I Asked a Monster to Be Seen
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A Halloween romantasy. Part two of two. Masquerade, monster romance.
The Mourning Masque is a hunt. It has always been a hunt. The masks bind four hundred of the old and the hungry into mannered human shape for one evening, and at the stroke of twelve the binding breaks, and the Host feeds on the chase.The Stag is one of them. He has worn a borrowed face at this party for two hundred years. And his plan, the kindest thing he can think of, is to get me to the gate and vanish before I ever see what he actually is. Save me, and stay a mystery.I have spent my whole life being handled by people who decided what I could take. I am not doing it again tonight, not from him, not from anyone.I don't want to be saved. I want to be let in on it.Eleven fifty. Four hundred monsters. One mask-maker who knows exactly what a mask is actually for, and one face she has not shown anyone in nine years.The conclusion of The Masque.
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