"Mwhahaha", the ugly witch cackled, "Now they're mine, and once I fill their heads with wool they'll become just like little sheep and follow my every command!"
"All along, you've been leading us to this crazy lady?" Wirt asked, hoping there was some kind of confusion happening between the two, wishing this was some kind of mistake, an error, surely his friend hadn't been planning to betray him and his brother this whole time.
But that's exactly what had been happening; Beatrice slowly nodded her head and stepped back from the scene. The witch turned her head towards Wirt and responded mysteriously "I do as he commands-- the voice of the night, the beast of eternal darkness." She jerked her head over towards the boys.
"Now, time to open your minds" The witch cackled, grabbing her wooden wand.
As she flicked it she chanted:
"Steel to skin, and skin to bone,
Let the thoughts within be overthrown.
Crown and brow, open wide,
Let the mind be stripped inside.
Tear the threads of reason thin,
Pull the thoughts, where none have been.
Whispers soft, a cotton bloom,
Stuff the brain with silent doom.
Cotton soft and white as snow,
Fill the void where memories go.
Piece by piece, and thread by thread,
Sew the silence in their head.
No more fear, no more strife,
Only emptiness and hollow life.
The mind is mine, the mind is still,
Bound in cotton, bound to fill."
As she chanted their minds were ripped open and stuffed with cotton, they had no choice or ability to think for themselves; mindless slaves at her will. Beatrice hid her head under her wing, afraid to see what her actions cost her.
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Rescue Us
FanficWhat if Beatrice didn't save them from Adelaide? Would they make it out? Would Adelaide fulfill her promise and make Beatrice and her family human again?
