![]() As he rolled over in this way his great jaws lolled open lending him the illusion of life. One minute his grisly unseeing eyes would be staring at the arched ceiling above and the next glaring down into the cold dark depths. Into the tunnels he had drifted, turning over and over in the water. Slowly he rolled out of the altar chamber and through a submerged archway. His immense body had sunk to the muddy bottom, where underwater currents pulled and swayed his corpse this way and that. The evil lord of the rats had met his end weeks before in the deep, dark sewer water. Revealed beneath the papers was the rotting body of an horrific giant cat. A scuffed toe tentatively nudged some of them aside and a dark cloud of angry, buzzing flies flew out. One of the builders came trudging up, his worn, tough boots waded through the weeds and paused at the newspaper mound. They lay in a mouldering heap amongst the loose bricks and spreading nettles. ![]() The builders themselves choked and covered their faces with their handkerchiefs.Īt the edge of the site, next to the river wall was an untidy pile of yellowing newspapers. It was strongest on a building site near the river. A terrible stench hung over the housing estates, and increased as the sun rose higher in the sky. As he struggles to save himself, the souls of his many victims rise out of the waves and drag him down to a watery death. To their horror, they discover that Jupiter is not a rat at all, but a monstrous cat, grown bloated and evil by years of hatred in the sewers.Īudrey throws her mousebrass into Jupiter’s face it explodes and sends the giant cat tumbling into the deep sewer water. However, with the help of the Green Mouse, the mice confound Jupiter’s plot and lure him out of his lair. The Deptford Mice discover that Jupiter is concocting a terrible plan – to release the Black Death upon London once again. Deep within the underground tunnels, the two mice discover the nightmare realm of Jupiter, the unseen but terrifying lord of the rats.Īudrey and Arthur are helped by a number of characters: Oswald, a sickly albino mouse often mistaken for a rat Twit, Oswald’s cousin and a simple country mouse Piccadilly, a cheeky young mouse from the city and Madame Akkikuyu, a black rat who ekes out a living peddling potions and telling phoney fortunes. In Book One, Audrey and Arthur Brown, two innocent town mice, are drawn into the sewers beneath the streets of Deptford in search of Audrey’s mousebrass – a magical charm given to her by the Green Mouse, the mystical spirit of Spring. The Crystal Prison is the second book in the story of the Deptford Mice, which began with The Dark Portal. ‘I can’t think of a better way to earn a living!’ So I went away and cut it, and then came up with new ideas for books two and three of The Deptford Mice Trilogy – The Crystal Prison and The Final Reckoning. ‘My editor thought this manuscript would make a trilogy because it was so long. I had envisaged it as a picture book, but it became a 70,000 word manuscript, and the basis for The Dark Portal. At the same time there wasn’t, but I sat down and thought of a project visually and drew a story board as though I were making a film. When I sent them to a publisher, I was asked if there was a story to go with the drawings. ‘I started making sketches of mice because they were the smallest things I could think of to draw. But they generally all start as a sketch or drawing and then take shape as a character is developed around them. Like many writers, I sometimes base my characters on real people (or parts of real people) and sometimes they are the complete product of my imagination. #Google books freax and rejex fullAnd it soon becomes apparent that the place is not a camp and the children are not guests.Robin Jarvis writes: ‘Whenever I am asked where I get my ideas for books and characters, I always wish I could come up with some weird and wonderful answer: “I dream them,” for example, or, “I get inspired whenever there’s a full moon.” But, unfortunately, neither of these is true. ![]() A barbed wire fence is put up around the site. ![]() With the critical eyes of the rest of the world turned towards Britain, the Ismus decides to send the children for an intensive holiday camp, where they will study the sacred text and learn to embrace it.īut after the holiday is over, the children are told their stay has been extended. The number of unaffected children between the ages of 7 and 16 is only 34. Yet a tiny percentage of the population have proven to be immune to the words of Austerly Fellows. The entire country is now under its evil spell. It is on its ninth reprint and tens of millions of copies have been sold in the UK. Five months have passed since the publication of the devilish book discovered in Dancing Jax. ![]()
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