Talk:Beast/@comment-30016491-20180316071954/@comment-1672596-20180718010635

The village is most likely supposed to be under Beast's jurisdiction based on his order to the coach to "take [Maurice] back to the village", which means the castle is still within the French borders, let alone the village (and besides, based on how Maurice got there in about an hour at best, not to mention a similar short time frame during the Mob Song, the castle's in close proximity, which really makes the villagers' total ignorance of the castle a plot hole if you ask me, even WITH their isolation [even the most isolated person would notice strange activity occurring in what amounts to their backyard, especially when the prologue heavily implied that the forest was also affected by the curse. The effects would be similar to, say, a nuclear bomb going off, hard to miss.].).