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CHAPTER 1
A History Lesson
Everyone knows the tale of the Pied Piper and how he piped the mice out of the village of Hamelin. Well, it turns out that the Pied Piper is a not-so-ordinary toy and clock maker, who happens to have a magical pipe, and a few other tricks up his sleeve. Drosselmeir by name, a famous rat-catcher by fame, or so everyone thought. Although he is a mechanical wizard, he never actually built a mousetrap. Instead, he used his magical pipe to pipe the mice away, through the clock and into another land, the Land of Sweets.
Which might cause problems, if you think about it. I mean, mice, in Candy Land?
However, when Drosselmeir rid Hamelin of the mice that were literally eating the villagers out of house and home, he accidentally piped their children out through the clock, too. And now, those very children have lived in the Lands of Sweets for so long and eaten nothing but sweets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner – that they’ve turned into
