We were almost to freedom, the prince and I, and we were holding hands running together up the tunnel to escape Forsaken Annwn.

“Julian, you’ve rescued me,” he said. “ Julian, you’ve saved me!”

The sweet air of the surface world, the living world, spooled around us heady threads of perfume. We burst through the mousehole and became big again and spun in circles laughing looking at the natural light. We ran out on the street and looked up at the sky.

But our laughter stopped, it all quieted down, as we looked around us and everything was all quiet too. The buildings were grown over and the concrete was cracked and the cars were rusty.

“What happened out here?” I asked, voice fearful and thin

Tiny little cyan bubbles popped all around in front of us, and the sun was eclipsed.

A beautiful blonde woman in a dark red gown was floating down from the sky softly and I became very afraid because I saw that the gown wasn’t red it was soaked in blood and she was scowling, she looked very angry. She wasn’t floating on a cloud she was floating on a big mass of viscera it was all the people she killed mashed together

She raised her arm and pointed at him and melted him into ash and I screamed.

“ What a moron, don’t you know how to shut the fuck up” she said to me. She raised her hand to point at me too. “ now get out of the way so i can go kill my cunt sister”

She zapped me and I died.