--Meanwhile, out in the Candy Kingdom Courtyard...
The sleekest shadow prowls among innocent sugarbits and snatches them in the hollowest pit of her grasp as she emerges from the darkness with a bat's glare and a sharp hiss that brushes past several rows of sharp teeth. "SSSSSSSSSSSTHO you think you can roam free while the SHE-MARE hungers?"
A low sizzle begins in the back of her throat as she opens her mouth wide, forked tongue sliding down the cool stripes of a particular butler's minty frame; the batlike screech growing loud enough to sound out all the screams of candy people running as fast as their little legs would take them.
"Heh heh heh heh heh!"










