00:00My father was a human.
00:03For a while, actually, he was the biggest winemaker in Orion.
00:08The king's appointed noobles didn't like him.
00:12Or rather, they didn't like the way he spoke out against them and their master.
00:19So they tried to kill him.
00:22He fled.
00:24My mother, still just a young soldier in the army at the time,
00:28found him.
00:30She nursed him back to health and...
00:34Well, to make a long story short,
00:38that's where I came from.
00:44Oh, it's actually not all that uncommon.
00:48Many monsters fall in love with humans.
00:51We used to be frowned upon, but...
00:54many of us have been working to undo the stigma.
00:58My new laws have certainly helped those efforts.
01:03And of course, killing some of the noble families that opposed it
01:08probably didn't hurt either.
01:13But yes, I had a human father.
01:17I grew up being ridiculed for it.
01:20And there were no shortage of monsters that looked down upon our family because of it.
01:27But he and my mother loved each other.
01:30And they loved me.
01:33My mother taught me to fight,
01:36as most loving mothers do.
01:39But my father taught me kindness.
01:43He taught me that humans weren't the great evil that the dark kings of the past said they were.
01:50Or, at the very least,
01:53that there were good humans among the bad.
01:57What is that human expression?
02:00A few bad apples?
02:04My father was also the one who first told me stories of the hero.
02:10He looked up to you, but...
02:13He believed you were a savior.
02:17And yet,
02:18he also believed that your faith in your human king
02:21led you astray from your proper path.
02:26It was my father's dream to see humans and monsters thriving together.
02:33When he died,
02:35I inherited that dream.
02:38That's why I fought my way up to be queen.
02:42I will mend this broken world.
02:46By force, I must.
02:49I don't...
02:54I don't know why I'm telling you all this.
02:57I've never actually told anyone any of this before.
03:04I guess that's what happens when
03:06you find a first human you can actually
03:10trust aside from your family.
03:14Be honest with me, Pat.
03:17Do you care?
03:19About me, I mean.
03:22Am I wasting my time here
03:24spelling my heart out to you?
03:27All these things I'm so eager to tell you.
03:31Am I just wasting my breath?
03:34Do you...
03:37Do you love me?
03:39Could you ever love me, even?
03:46Silence.
03:48After everything
03:50will you have from me
03:51is silence.
03:55I do understand, Pat.
03:58Am I so difficult to love?
04:01Have I not taken care of you?
04:04Have I not given everything you've asked for?
04:09Have I not...
04:11Have I not loved you enough?
04:15Is it...
04:16Is it...
04:18Is it just because I'm a monster?
04:20Is that all it is?
04:24You don't know.
04:27You don't know.
04:35Do you truly not know?
04:37Or are you merely afraid to say no?
04:41Are you scared of what I might do if you reject me?
04:46Because that is a wise choice, Pat.
04:50I wonder if you know just how easy it would be.
04:53My simple command.
04:56Just six little words.
04:59And you would truly belong to me.
05:03Even if your love is forced.
05:06Isn't that preferable to know love at all?
05:13Cruel?
05:14Yes.
05:16Deadlessly so.
05:19Fitting for a monster like me, isn't it?
05:25What is that, Pat?
05:29I need to...
05:31Get a hold of myself.
05:36I know.
05:38I'm trying.
05:39I just...
05:43Yes, you're right.
05:45As usual, Pat.
05:48Maybe I just need to slate this off.
05:51If you're finished with your meal, then...
05:54We can retire for the evening.
06:00Very well.
06:01Let's go.
06:07Pat, I...
06:10I realize I've made you quite uncomfortable tonight.
06:14And with all the sorrow in me...
06:17And an alcohol because I was trying to...
06:20Drown that down.
06:23I'm quite flushed already.
06:27You may rest in my bed if you stay fed.
06:31But I will not ask you to warn me tonight.
06:41I can feel your gaze on my back, Pat.
06:44Is there something you want from me?
06:50Excuse me, Pat?
06:53I don't...
06:54I don't believe I heard you properly.
07:02You...
07:02You...
07:03You're...
07:04Cold.
07:07I, uh...
07:09I did say that I was expecting the wine would keep me warm, but...
07:15Well, if you insist that I hold you, then...
07:19I suppose I must...
07:24There.
07:26How does that feel?
07:31Listen to me, Pat.
07:34I won't...
07:36I won't apologize for what I said earlier.
07:41It was the truth, after all.
07:44I've spent so much of my life longing for you.
07:49I don't know what I would do without you.
07:53But I do want you to know that I did not put that color on you, intending to force you
07:58into loving me.
08:00I wanted to win your affection through my own wiles, not through magic.
08:08And I intend to hold firm to that desire.
08:12And it's just...
08:14It's become so difficult lately.
08:19With a masquerade coming up soon, I...
08:23I've been finding myself rather excitable.
08:28And because of that, I'm just finding it harder and harder to control myself around you.
08:38But I am trying, Pat.
08:41I promise.
08:46Yes.
08:47The promised night masquerade.
08:50It's, uh...
08:52It's an annual tradition for us monsters of the noble houses.
08:57A masquerade ball where the younger members of the houses announced their intended courtships and engagements.
09:09Well, it's not the masquerade.
09:14Rather, the issue is with the promised night itself.
09:17And what it represents.
09:25Well, it's, uh...
09:30How should I put this delicately?
09:34It marks the beginning of, uh...
09:38Of breeding season.
09:40For most of us animalistic monsters.
09:45Being as I, myself, am of a, uh...
09:49Motherly age.
09:52I hope you can see why I've been so...
09:55Direct.
10:01Yes, it's, uh...
10:03It's a little embarrassing.
10:06I won't lie.
10:09Most women my age probably have a bit of experience dealing with these feelings by now, but...
10:16Well, uh...
10:17They're still new to me.
10:20I've never had them before this year.
10:27No, Pat.
10:29I wasn't trying to hide any of this from you.
10:33It's just that...
10:36Given the somewhat short-lived nature of our relationship...
10:41And the danger of exposing you so publicly...
10:45I had simply intended on keeping you an anonymous guest...
10:49Rather than putting you in the spotlight beside me.
10:55As such...
10:56I foresaw no reason to tell you.
11:03Huh.
11:04A little mad.
11:05I didn't expect you to be so curious about this.
11:10Why don't we discuss it more in the morning, Pat?
11:14Would you like that?
11:18Well then.
11:19I bid you sweet dreams, Pat.
11:23Let us hope tomorrow is a better day.
11:25Let us hope tomorrow is a better day.
11:25Okay.
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