Wait. I just noticed something. An artistic error perhaps, but I might be wrong.
In the first panel, Beast is using his RIGHT paw when he feels the blood. Yet in the second panel when he pulls his paw away, it shows his LEFT paw having the blood on it instead. Then in the third panel, it switches his paws so that the blood is now on his RIGHT.
Oh I was wrong, I was so wrong! That's not good! Is he bleeding from where his heart used to be? Has the nest of thorns started cutting into him, the way it has in other parts of the story to warn him not to keeping speaking? Poor Beast....
