As he crawled across the tablecloth, he remembered the words of the prisoner in the dungeon, his regret that he did not look back at his daughter as he left her. And so, Roscuro turned. He looked back. And he saw that the princess was glaring at him. Her eyes were filled with disgust and anger. “Go back to the dungeon” was what the look she gave him said. “Go back into the darkness where you belong.” This look, reader, broke Roscuro’s heart. Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken. If the rat had not
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