Alice Mayweather was a poor girl

living in a box

the plague took her family

nobody was able to take care of her

she wasn't pretty enough for the golden cat

but she was good-looking for the leader of

the Claws

despise the fact she wanted nothing to do with them

she needed a place to sleep

she would fight tooth and nail

but still ended up in bed

holding a piece of broken glass to her wrist

she prayed to the Outsider

to send for the rats

as she lay bleeding the rats came

devouring her body leaving nothing

but bone

soon the Claws were devoured as well

was this the work of the Outsider

or just a random coincidence

who knows

the Outsider continues to watch

and ponders

if Alice hadn't committed suicide

what would she had done

we will never know

it matters not the choice

was hers