It's not that there are no men in the village that her castle protects, that would be silly and unproductive. But there ones who are here are men who don't take after that sneering oaf who believed it his God-given destiny to kill the Beast and free the village from her evil clutches. They saw, each of them, what happens to a man that believes his sex was given dominion over the other, as the hunter fell from the parapets, and they felt it in their own bones when his broke upon meeting the unyielding stone in her courtyard.
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