Page 48 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold

And we assume, Franz, because he was no longer flesh and blood, but rather wood and paint.
Then the Mouse Queen smiled as she looked at Krakatuk glowing at the end of her scepter, and she lifted the Nut high in the air, as she marched across the floor to smash the Nutcracker (who was really Franz) to bits.
Drosselmeir was running at top speed across the room as he called desperately to Princess Pirlipat, “Save him! Save him!” But the cowardly Pirlipat only tried desperately to free herself from the Nutcracker, who had become tangled in the lace of her voluminous skirts (which I think is one reason no one wears those really, really, big skirts anymore!).
As the Mouse Queen stalked across the parquet floor, Pirlipat cringed and cried out, “I can do nothing to stop the
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