"The Change Cricket" (sequel to snow spider) by Brandon H, Age 10, Class 6KR

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The Change Cricket

Sequel to “The snow spider”

Although winter was over, and it had been a month since Lucy had seen her god-guardian, it was still snowing heavily and ever so bitterly cold.

Lucy longed to see The Snow Queen again, but thought it impassible (it’s impassible because nothing is impossible).

But, then again, she never thought that she would be disguised as a cricket, because the Snow Spider would never survive in moments like this.

Yet there the cricket was, perched upon the windowsill in the exact same spot as the Queen was before, when she weaved the poem web.

As it was, the cricket was inside of the window when Lucy went to her bedroom, where it morphed as before into the Snow Queen, though she was clad in a more springtime flowing gown.

“Ohmygodohmygodohmygod!” Lucy was so gob smacked that she felt amnesic and only just remembered whom she was facing.

“Cricket...?” She wavered.

“Yes, I am here to give you a warning; one of your most beloved pets shall pass on in the future, a most beloved pet, your cat, Tibbs.” She said.

Lucy was almost crying as soon as she was told about the words “beloved” and “die”.

“But,” said the Change Cricket. “It will either pass away peacefully or, if you heed my warning, it will live.”

“Anything for Tibbs, please, please tell me the warning!”

“You must make sure that you don’t take a holiday to Bristol on February 3rd, or he will be tragically run over by an R-reg Ford Fiesta, because the person caring for Tibbs while you’re gone will fall asleep on the job,” she finished.

Suddenly, she disappeared without a trace, apart from the warning written in spidery handwriting upon grained parchment.

FASTFORWARD TO FEBURARY 3rd, 2009: Tibbs-nor any other pet or person- doesn’t die.
Will Lucy be visited by the Snow Queen again? You’ll just have to wait and see.

By Brandon H
Age 10
Class 6KR
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