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Belle always forgot to take the hidden path to Levi's bookstore. Either she was reading or dreaming or singing to herself, or just genuinely interested in what the world was like outside her house and the quiet life she and her father led. So she always wound up on the route directly through the village, and therefore talking to - and being talked about by - the villagers.
Look there she goes, that girl is strange no question. Dazed and distracted can't you tell?
And if she was honest, she might have done it a little on purpose. It was pleasant but lonely on their tiny farm. Belle was always eager to start conversations and always disappointed by how they ended the same way, every time.
"That's nice, Belle."
"Buy a roll, Belle?"
"Thank it's going to rain, Belle?"
"Isn't my baby beautiful, Belle? She's just like the other six -"
"Have you said yes to Gaston yet?"
She wished, just once, someone would show an interest in the same things she did. But that wasn't possible in the tiny village with the same hundred or so people who had always lived there - and always would.
Madame Gaston, can't you just see it?
Prince Eric’s village (1989) and Belle’s little town (1991)
As Old As Time by Liz Braswell, Twisted Tales #3, pages 19-20 of paperback edition
A redo of this post. I kind of do think that Liz Braswell is being to hard on the villagers though. It was a small, quiet, ordinary town (compare the "little town" to Prince Eric's village), but the townspeople were hard at work. They didn't have time to stop their work and chat. Anyhow I remember I selected the top gif because it showed Belle "en route" to the bookshop.