title: Medusa Tells All: Beauty Missing, Hair Hissing (The Other Side of the Myth)
author: Rebecca Fjelland Davis
description: Rebecca Fjelland Davis lives near Good Thunder, Minnesota. Her young-adult novels include Chasing AllieCat (Flux, 2011), a Junior Library Guild Selection; and Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged (HarperCollins, 2003), a BCCB Blue Ribbon Fiction Book; her short story "Mars at Night" appears in the anthology Girl Meets Boy: Because There Are Two Sides to Every Story (Chronicle, 2012), on the Kirkus Reviews list of "Best Teen Books of 2012." Rebecca has also written nine nonfiction books for children. Shes a cyclist, a dog owner, and an instructor at South Central College (North Mankato, Minn.), where she teaches a lot of Greek mythology.
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  The beautiful young woman cut a strange figure in a place like this. Even as
  angry as she obviously was, it was impossible not to fall in love with her at
  first sight.
  
  
  She had hair red as flame that fell to her waist, and eyes as blue as the open
  sky. She had slender, pale limbs and a healthy figure with lovely symmetry.
  Her features were impeccable; she had an airy beauty like a flower in the sun.
  
  
  Theresia van Astrea was her name—the name of this handsome and furious young
  woman.
  
  
  “Wilhelm?” She fixed him with a stern look, but he had been so taken by the
  mere sight of her that he had lost his voice. Loath for her to realize it,
  however, he held up his hands.
  
  
  “Right, I understand, I’m sorry,” he said, giving a pointed shake of the
  restraints around his hands. “Think you could take these off?”
  
  
  “Oh, for… I wonder if you really _do_ understand.”
  
  
  Annoyed by the perfunctory reply, Theresia nonetheless gave 