Mr Jarvis’ Book of the Dead | Fleabee’s Fortune

In this post we record for posterity and remembrance the names of all those who have fallen to the fatal stroke of Mr Jarvis’ pen. Hero, villain, or neither, we honour their sacrifice for the greater myth of the story.

The list of the deceased in Fleabee’s Fortune is mercifully slight, seeing only ‘ORACE BALDMONEY return from the grave to advise our intrepid heroine. In origin a vicious follower of Jupiter, ‘Orace turned to the Green after meeting and befriending the mice of Deptford in the year 1789.

For his change of heart, ‘Orace was cruelly slain by his rat kin, along with many of the Skirtings mice. In mouse calendars, the 30th of November is remembered as ‘Orace Day, and ‘Orace thereafter became a figure of high regard for all young outcast creatures. The night of that first Skirtings raid is also remembered as the time when Jupiter placed his terrible enchantment upon the Grill, dooming all mice who ventured into the cellar to serve him beyond the candles of the Dark Portal.