Saturday, September 26, 2009

chapter one page 5

Fortunately Pendle had enough commonsense to reach out inside Pendleberry’s puff-ball and press the magic-wand button, to stop the magic. Alex kind of clicked-clicked, then he stopped shrinking, but he was now as small as Pendle.

You are as small as me now, said Pendle. You can come down and see Hector!

I can come down and see Hector! Alex and Pendle both had the same thought and spoke together.

Pendleberry leaped up and down trying to clap her paws together.

Mini-mini-man is coming down our hole
She scampered on down the burrow to tell everyone else.


I am Alex! Alex yelled after her, but his voice was squeaky, like a doll’s, soft and high, so she probably didn’t hear him.

Eric and Pendle were disappearing down the tunnel too. Alex quickly followed them. Being so small he was afraid of being left alone. The countryside he was leaving now seemed like a jungle. The grass towered over him, each blade like a thick tree trunk and each harebell flower like a huge trumpet.

He had to run really fast because new entrances appeared every few steps down the tunnel. This is a hundred times worse than Longleat maze he kept thinking. Eventually the two Wygnets in front of him stopped in a circular space, in the middle of which was a round table covered with a cloth which was spotted all over in a rainbow of colours.

Allo Alex, said a new voice. Pendleberry told us you were coming to see Hector, so I quickly laid our special cloth for a feast!

Feast! Um! Ugh! He nearly choked. On the table were tiny plates filled with squirming ants and stripey brown and yellow things.

What’s “yuck”? Pendle was really puzzled.

What’s THAT? Alex said, pointing.

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