"Wait, explain this all one more time?" you asked, sitting on an ornate golden chair in what you assumed to be the dining room. The room was incomparable to what you'd seen before, intricate carvings covered the ceiling, their raised edges covered in gold and you smiled when you thought about that ceiling in your own house, low enough for you to stand, reach a hand up and stroke.
But you weren't in that cottage anymore, with the golden glow of the lamps warming you when the fire couldn't. You were sitting in the house of the beast that had abducted you, instead of just killing you when he had threatened to.
Instead, you fixed your glare on the wolf-like creature that was still looming in the doorway, as if challenging him to say something. But ever since you had awoken in the chair, the beast had not said a word.
That annoyed you and without thinking you clutched the sides of your chair and stood up, moving to storm out of another exit until what felt like an invisible rope wrapped around your waist and dragged you into the chair. When you tried to get up it held you there, and you wondered if you could throw the fork at his face from where you were seated.
"You will eat girl," the beast rumbled from the other side of the room, his hair standing up and making him look even more threatening. You struggled in the chair wondering if perhaps you should try and attack him instead until the boy across the table cleared his throat.
Taehyung, the first person you had seen after awakening who had quickly explained that you were in the realm of the fae and where indeed in the house of the 'beast'. When you'd tried to throw your knife at him, assuming he was the beast, Taehyung jumped so hard he fell from his chair before he introduced himself as a member of the court.
Now he seemed to be trying to break your intense gaze, seething with hatred at the beast that stood silently in the doorway of the dining room. "The food will get cold," Taehyung smiled and began to eat, his clothes were beautiful and you assumed he held a high position in this house. His brown hair seemed to shine in the light of the candle, set between you and him seemed such a stark contrast from the beast who fixed you with one last hard stare before walking to the huge window, placing a paw against the glass and focusing his attention away from you.
Your relief allowed you to finally take in your surroundings; the plate seemed to be made out of porcelain, delicate and fragile compared to the wooden ones at home and the food smelled so good it was a miracle you weren't drooling. Instead of gazing at the array of vegetables on your plate, like the carrots that were stupidly expensive for you, you fixed the back of the beast's head with a stare, "is he always like that?"
"Only when he's angry," Taehyung laughed and pointed his fork at you, mock whispering, "how did you survive his wrath?" He seemed amused as you shrugged and continued to push the food around your plate in a rebellion to just follow his demands. In fact, the more you thought about it the more you wished he had just killed you outside the cottage instead of knocking you unconscious to have you as some sort of prisoner.
Taehyung coughed when he saw you struggle again as you tried to get up, feet kicking the table as you tried to topple the chair, "be careful miss! you'll hurt yourself!" He leapt to his feet and just as he was about to stop you, his eyes widened and he slowly sat back down.
The beast turned from gazing out of the window, a low threatening growl caused you to halt your movements and stare wide-eyed at him, Taehyung leant forward and prodded you, "don't scream no matter what you're about to see."
The brown, glossy fur seemed to melt off the creature's body, revealing tanned skin and his bright green eyes faded to a deep bark coloured brown. Soon enough there was no trace that a beast had been standing at the window, replaced by a boy with eye-catching good looks.
