When the beast had said this, he went away.

The beast of a man gloated over me, said something about my not running anymore.

Face the beast, if the things he had said about the woman were true.

And all the beasts said nothing else for years.

"We must take this child back with us," the beast holding her said.

"We do not know what things look like, as you say," the beast said.

"It is so long since my own small ones were grown and gone," the beast said.

"A big beast, god," Johnson says when asked whether he is looking forward to his new role.

The beast gestured back toward the bowl and said, "Help yourself, human."

If she knows so much about it, why doesn't she tell us what these little beasts are saying?