Tyrant Spell

Mummy took Angus to the bathroom so that he wouldn’t wet the bed, but she had come in anyway several times and just stood there looking at her brother’s empty bed and sniffing and wiping her eyes.

In the morning, when Kirsty woke up, the wind was driving the rain hard against the windows. Kirsty scrambled from her bed and ran to the window and looked out. The snowman was washing away!

She crept out of the room. The door to her parent’s room was open. When she looked inside, their bed was empty and neither of them was in their bathroom.

Kirsty went to peek into the spare room, where Katherine was actually still in bed, although she was sitting up with her head in her hands. Kirsty stole quietly downstairs and into the porch. She put on her coat and wellingtons and slipped outside.

The snowman was just a pile of slush, but Angus was nowhere to be seen! He must have really run away to play in the woods.

One week later, Angus still hadn’t been found and now when she came home from school, Kirsty found that the cottage was very quiet and Mummy just came in and slumped on the sofa and stared in front of her at the Christmas tree lights.

On Christmas day, Kirsty woke up really early, while it was still dark, and saw by the lamplight that her sack at the bottom of the bed was bulging. New toys had been left for her

by Father Christmas!

25