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Sweet Thoughts of Revenge
All the way to the Land of Sweets, the Mouse Queen had one thought and one thought only, “Pay the piper – that’s what I’m gonna do – I’m gonna pay the piper!”
Of course, you and I know the Mouse Queen didn’t mean she was going to whip out her pocketbook and write Drosselmeir a check. Oh, no. When a Mouse Queen like our Mouse Queen talks about paying the piper, you can bet her thoughts will soon turn to ‘how’ to pay the piper.
And they did.
Being a mouse, the Mouse Queen’s first thoughts were of getting rid of Drosselmeir and eating everything in the Land of Sweets to her heart’s content. And as she thought, she began to hum a marching cadence: “As the Chief Gourmand, I’ll soon command, all in the land, to feed me on the throne! As their one and only gastronome, I’ll need no human chaperone. So, he can leave his happy home, and he can be the one to roam, as I enjoy my lunch alone! It’s all for me, and me alone. Autonomy, for gastronomy! As Queen Cuisine – I’ll rule supreme!”
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