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What Coffee Saw
After the bad morning with the Princess, Coffee drank the entire pot of snubbed coffee, herself, and was by now, bouncing off the walls from too much caffeine. Mother Ginger booted her out of the castle in a friendly sort of, “A little fresh air and exercise will do you good,” sort of way.
So off Coffee went, to the hills. She was so jived, she felt she could run up to the mountains beyond, as well. But by the time she had jittered and jumped up the second hill, Coffee was panting for breath and stopped at an outcropping of rock. But the caffeine wouldn’t let her stand still and she couldn’t even think of running any more. But move she must, so up she went, scaling the rocks. At the top, Coffee did a little victory dance and spun around to look across the Land of Sweets to the borders beyond.
At about her third or fourth spin, Coffee realized that a horde of invading mice was flashing before her eyes! Giant mice! And they had gnawed away the gates at the border and were all scrambling through to the Land of Sweets.
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