Sebastian Gregory - The Gruesome Adventures Of Alice In Undeadland

“Do you need your heart?”

“It is where I keep my love for my parents. It is the only thing I have left of them,” she explained further.

“I see,” replied the mouse head. “Perhaps I could help? I could be your guide and in return you could keep me safe? After all, I am a mouse bottle top without a bottle — we have both lost things.”

Alice thought for moment. The mouse head seemed pleasant enough and she had no clue to the rabbit’s whereabouts. The company would also not go unwanted.

“In that case,” she said, “I will keep you safe.”

“Oh, thank you. I won’t let you down, miss.” The mouse head was elated.

“Please, call me Alice.”

She fashioned a necklace from pieces of her dress with the mouse head as makeshift locket. She tied it around her neck. Into Undeadland she went, with Mousehead — the name she had chosen — as her companion. They walked amongst the gravestones, stopping occasionally to read the grim epitaphs from the many grim headstones.

Little Billy Brat swallowed a rat — it scratched through his throat , said one, and there in the stone was a carving of a boy cowering in fear, while a giant rodent slobbered above him.

Mary Mary dead and scary , said another and again in stone was a ghost child rising from a mirror held by a smaller little girl.

Victor Drake squeezed to death by a snake .

Henrietta Cripps impaled with sharpened sticks .

Little Bo Peep trampled by rabid sheep .

And so it went on. It reminded Alice of a story the children of the orphanage would tell each other. It was a way of finding comfort in the pain of others. She spoke it out to Mousehead.

“‘Ten Victorian children playing amongst a long-lost shrine,

One disturbs the cursed seal,

Then they are nine.

Nine Victorian children bind a friend with weight,

They throw him into the murky pond,

Then they are eight.

Eight Victorian children pray to their two friends in heaven,

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