Page 180 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold

functionality was blatantly incapacitated – and incapacitated means headless, if you follow its Latin roots back to “capo” which does mean head, and “in” which is negative. So you could say incapacitated means sans head, and I seem to have lost my own at this moment. So sorry.)
Back to the Ratties tossing Reggie ‘round – the whole pinball machine mess hit “tilt,” as the Ratties came face to face with their biggest fear, which was not a headless Reggie, but The Question. And The Question they all feared was: What happens when the Queen discovers no head?
The Answer to The Question, the Ratties all decided was, “We’re dead!”
This is what lay so heavy on their shoulders as they carried Reggie’s body through the clock tunnel. (It wasn’t Reggie who was heavy. The biggest thing about Reggie was his head, remember?)
Their Answer to The Question – namely being, “We’re dead!” – lay heavy on their shoulders, as they reached the Land of Sweet’s door of the Clock.
The Answer to The Question, “We’re dead!” lay heavy on their shoulders when, after a half hour of dithering at the inside of the door of the Clock, they finally opened it and stepped out into the snowdrift of the Christmas Tree Forest.
The Answer to The Question, “We’re dead!” lay heavy on their shoulders as they plowed through the snow.
The Answer to The Question, “We’re dead!” lay heavy on their shoulders, as they trudged past the terrified and
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