Judy Garland and her mother (whom Judy kept in a little wooden box about four inches square) were suffering from cancer, and hiding from wicked relatives or HMO operatives in a huge palace, full of archways, staircases, marble, columns, and similar palatial things. They lived in the hallways, ever dodging the roving parties of visitors. They stayed alive and fought off the cancer with the bones of others, by consuming them in some unhallowed manner. Whenever someone would die or fall asleep in the halls, they'd steal their bones. I recall seeing them do this once; the person who'd died was a small black plastic trough, like a ballpoint pen sliced lengthwise in half, and his bones were little wobbly wire coils inside, tiny springs.