Beauty: Into the Arms of Fate Summary

Beauty awakes in Inanna's bedchamber to persistent knocking at the door. Terrified, she waits until the knocking ceases before waking Inanna. As Beauty prepares to leave, Inanna embraces her passionately and the pair kisses. Through a mutual determined look, they both seem to understand that this will not be their only encounter, that they will find a way to be together again.

Beauty runs through the palace as fast and far from Inanna as possible so that Inanna will not be implicated in the affair. Beauty searches for the grooms, knowing that they will be aware that she has not maintained her position throughout the night, but as a slave, she will not be expected to verbalize anything. When she thinks of the possibility of Lexius questioning her whereabouts during the night, she determines that she will...