The Tale of Despereaux Chapter 49 Summary

What Do You Want, Miggery Sow?!

  • The book flashes back to Roscuro and Mig taking the princess down to the dungeons. They make Princess Pea take off her crown and hand it over to Mig.
  • When Mig asks Roscuro how she looks, he laughs at her and says that she's ridiculous. He tells her that she'll never look like a princess no matter what she's wearing. He orders her to chain up the princess. What a rat.
  • He tells the princess that she's going to spend the rest of her life in the dungeons. That confuses Mig, because he told her that the princess would go upstairs to be a serving girl.
  • That's when Mig realizes that Roscuro doesn't intend for her to become the princess at all. He just used her.
  • The princess asks Mig what she really wants in life, and Mig cries and says that she wants her mother. The princess says that she understands; she misses her mom too.
  • Roscuro is pretty dismayed by this whole turn of events. The princess isn't even chained up yet and now she's bonding with Mig over their dead mothers.
  • Mig says she won't chain up the princess, and tells Roscuro to lead them back up to the castle. But Roscuro won't give in either.
  • So they all sit in the dungeons together and wait and wait for something to happen. And eventually, a little mouse comes along.