The queen heard, and was furious.<\/p>\n
“It’s missing a note!” she snapped, and indeed–though the clock rang with bells like roaring lions, chirping frogs, howling coyotes and crying men–something was absent. “He’s made a mocking jingle of our royal clock’s melody. Drag him out to answer!”<\/p>\n
The guards marched into the clock tower. They paced the catwalks, poked spears into crannies, and checked that they had missed no secret exit. Drosselmeier was gone.<\/p>\n
The astronomer was laughing when they brought him to the throne room. “He’s escaped you, rodents!”<\/p>\n
“And left you behind,” said the Pistachio Queen, “to hang.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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