There's some justice to what the beast says, but Ami doesn't quite back down yet. "But I can't go home," she points out, quietly but firmly. She's promised herself she won't be afraid.

She has no idea that he's as trapped as she is; she imagines him free to come and go - which, technically, he is. But it hasn't occurred to her that in more practical terms, the beast can't exactly show up in the middle of town and make friends.