Page 191 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold

There’s Something Familiar Here
“Do I know you? You look familiar.”
Both Franz and Pirlipat – i.e., the Nutcracker and the Troll – were staring at each other in that unsure, “Do I know you?” sort of way. Both feeling like they should know the person in front of them, but at a total loss as to whom that person could be.
Finally, Pirlipat put it all together, as she should, because Franz had no idea the Princess had been turned into a troll. Whereas Pirlipat had seen Franz turned into a Nutcracker, right before her eyes. And even though his head was ten times bigger than the last time she had seen it, it was still the same head and the same eyes and the same gi-normous jaws.
“Franz?”
Franz stared back like a block of wood. (Which he was.) “Franz! Oh, Franz! It’s me, Princess Pirlipat!”
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