[Linda nods, relieved that Grainne is interested. she continues] But she got their horse to take her back to the spot where he lost her father. And she found out that he hadn't been killed--instead, he'd found a castle there when he was running from the wolves, and he'd hidden inside it. But it was owned by a terrible beast--a giant man, like a lion with fur over his body and a scraggly mane. So while the staff had helped her father find safety there, when the Beast had found him in his castle, he had locked him up.

Now that Belle knew where he was, she couldn't leave her father like that. So she did the only thing she could do--she offered to trade places with him. She would stay as the Beast's prisoner if he set her father free. Her father protested, but he couldn't change Belle's mind, and he was freed and sent away. He hurried home, hoping to find help in their village to come back and free his daughter.

Meanwhile, the Beast invited Belle to dinner, but she refused him. Angry, the Beast declared that she wouldn't get any food if she wouldn't eat with him. Luckily for Belle, the servants took pity on her and invited her to dinner anyway. Belle discovered that the servants in this castle were very strange--they were all household items, like a candlesticks, a clock, and a teapot with her teacup child. They came together to serve her an amazing feast and took her on a tour of the castle.

But Belle snuck away from the tour to explore the castle more on her own. And she went to the one place in the castle that was forbidden--the west wing. There, she found a room full of broken items and a shredded painting of a prince--as well as a rose in the middle of the room, glowing and floating in a glass case. Belle moved to touch it, but the Beast found her, snatched her hand away, and screamed at her to get out. Terrified, Belle ran not just from the west wing but from the entire castle. She ran out into the woods--and this time it's Belle who gets attacked by the wolves.