Giygas- Speaking Mice

“Kee-heehee, kee-keekeekeekee!”
	Suddenly, from the floor at the trio's feet, there came a voice that sounded like a nail scraping against metal. They looked down and saw a grinning mouse, its eyes shaped like two joyful crescent moons as its stiff little whiskers twitched and wiggled. Ana hurriedly switched her mind into a different “mode”, and as soon as she did, she could understand what the mouse was saying.
	“Oh now this is interesting,” said the mouse. “Rare, even! A truly beautiful scene indeed. These three humans...traveling together as companions, yet still taking time out to have themselves a little argument! Keehee keehee keehee.”
	 “Oh, Mister Mouse!” Ana addressed him with her mind. “I'm wondering if you can tell me something. Do you know where we can find a piano that makes music, even though there is no one playing it? Which way should we go?”
	 “A piano?” said the mouse. “What is a piano...? Is it that food covered in holes, which is so tasty and filling?”
	“No, that's cheese,” Ana replied.
	“Ah, then is it those fellows who flop and splash around, all soggy and wet, and when you take a big bite out of them, you find all those painful little bones?”
	 “That's a fish,” said Ana. “It's not food. A piano is...well, a piano has lots of white and black planks, all side by side. And if you hit them, a sound comes out.”
	 “Ahh, one of those, eh?” said the mouse. “You're on your own then, I'm afraid. I have no idea where one might be. Keeheehee.”
The mouse's little body shook with laughter, and then as soon as he finished giggling, he nimbly jumped up onto Ana's shoulder.
	“But…since you're so cute, sister, I'll tell you a valuable secret,” he said.
	“Oh, what is it? Tell me, tell me!” Ana cried.
	“Well, for one thing...”
	The mouse spoke in a hushed whisper, so without even thinking about it, Ana leaned her ear in closer and...
	KER-CHOMP!
	“Yeowch!”
	...The mouse bit her earlobe.
	 “...You shouldn't trust anyone!” the mouse said. “Putting your faith in folks you don't know is a huge mistake! Sorry to tell ya this, but you can't expect any good, wholesome characters to show up in this house – not even one! Once you enter this haunted hell-house, you'll never get out alive! Leave all that optimistic stuff at the door, won't you? Keeheeheeheeheeheehee!”
	Ana tried to brush the mouse off, but long before she could, he effortlessly evaded her and leapt to her back. Then, taking what was left of her precious hair in his teeth, he jumped off and yanked down on it with all of his strength.
	“Yaaah!”
	Ana's head was pulled back, and suddenly two or three more mice were leaping at her, with those long, pointed teeth aiming straight for her pale throat!

- MOTHER- The Original Story, chapter 3