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actual Sweeties, which proves once and for all that you really are what you eat. Sweeties are very kind, very cute and very sweet, but are so lacking in the long-term memory department, that they have completely forgotten about the mice and at times, even their own homes and parents.
But not Drosselmeir! He rues the day he piped both children and mice into a land made entirely of sugar. He is under a cloud of guilt, as the children grow more and more sugary and helpless every day, as their diet, and the Land itself, makes them less the children they were and more the true inhabitants of the Land of Sweets. And he fears that if he can’t return the children home soon, they will be spoiled forever, which always happens when children get too much candy.
He knows the only thing keeping the mice away is the fact that he piped them deep into the wilderness, beyond the borders of the Land of Sweets. But he fears it is only a question of time before the mice find their way back to the Land of Sweets.
And then what will happen to the Sweeties, who grow more sugary and tasty-looking with each passing day?
So even though Drosselmeir knows that his nephew and apprentice, Franz, longs to return home, to Hamelin and Clara, however, the clock is broke and there is no way back. Drosselmeir still remains in the Land of Sweets, frantic to find the famous magic nut, the Krakatuk. For Drosselmeir knows that if he could only find the Krakatuk, then he could weave a spell so strong that no mouse would dare to even sneak a taste of candy, and so the Land of Sweets would be safe, forever, from any mouse who just happened to be hungry. And if the Land of Sweets is safe
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