Where The Pied Piper Took The Children

The adults laughed as they refused to pay the Pied Piper for ridding their village of rats, but were angry when he piped away their children through his magic portal.

They were not bothered that the children had gone, but were mad that something they regarded as something they owned had been taken away. The village had never been happy.

The music of The Pied Piper told the children they would be appreciated and loved, not continually admonished and scolded as they had been in the village.

That is why the children followed him and left their old lives behind.