The Card Guard exemplifies so much of what's wrong in the world these days.
Hired to do a thing - guard. Tasked with an entirely different thing - paint.
And now he's responsible for everything that goes wrong with guarding AND painting. And did he get a pay raise? A new and fancier job title?
No. All he got was threatened. WITH BEHEADING!
With that in mind, you'll forgive him for what comes next.
He sought to escape. Reasonable enough given the circumstances.
Though his method was a little unorthodox. Then again we're talking about a talking talking playing card who lives in Wonderland - not exactly the Land of Orthodoxy.
Anyway, he ate some cake. But not just any cake, no. The Getting Small kind.
And small he got! Small enough now that you can hold him in one hand.
Or clip him to your purse.
Small enough in fact that he's now down on the level of the hedgehogs.
Nice thing about the hedgehogs. No one threatens to "off" their heads.
He's escaped the Queen's Garden and now you can adopt him!