LUCAS GETS MORE VISITS

All the village clan are worried about Lucas and so all day they have been coming with things to try to
lighten his spirit.
Erik and Robin carried in a box for him to use beside his bed and Toby dragged in a chair which he then sat in and looked at a book totally forgetting Lucas as he laughed and giggled at the pictures before wandering off with the book still under his arm!

After lunch Sophie came in with a magical winter globe, which she placed on Lucas's box and said he could borrow  until Christmas day.

Lucas could only nod his thanks knowing that this was Sophie's most treasured Christmas decoration!

Lucas spent the next hour watching the little scene inside the globe.

So engrossed in the globe he jumped when he was suddenly hugged by Belle , who he had not even noticed had come into the room.
"Sweet Lucas , How do you feel ? " she cooed

Any other time Lucas would have growled at Belle for calling him a sissy name like Sweet but he did not have the energy.
" I saw this when I was in town " says Belle putting a snowman card on the box " I thought you would like it "

"Look " says says " It opens to show lots of snowmen!" Lucas looks at the card, he does like snowmen.
"I'll put it on the chair " Belle continues " It's too big to sit next to Sophie's snow globe... " Belle's voice trails away as she realises that Sophie's let Lucas have her snow globe by his bed, last year Sophie nearly thumped her when she asked to have it in her room!

When Simone arrives with a little father Christmas, Lucas sits up to study this new figure, his old mother said Father Christmas was just some old man who stole toys from children but since he never had any toys he was not bothered.
Would this funny happy little man steal his toys he wondered.

He's resting again when Ginny arrives " I thought you may like this little snowman " she says with a big smile.

Lucas looks at this little snowman, he likes snowmen, he's never told anyone this, when he lived with the Ice Queen she would have him make lots of snowmen, he would work all day and late into the night and when he had finished they were be a row of happy tilted very small snowmen but when he came back in the morning they would all be destroyed , their coal eyes scattered and their carrot noses smashed under her majesty's foot.

Once Ginny's gone Lucas sits up and picking up the little snowman figure , wonders at it, he remembers after the Queen smashed his second line of snowmen, that she'd insisted he build all day, he'd been made again to build more but the next morning only a few of the snowmen had been destroyed and the Ice Queen was being carried indoors by Tate and another boy, screeching about her foot. Lucas had looked at the third snowman that was partly smashed  and the large stone he'd had to roll into it's belly , it being so big and laughed so loud he knew the queen would make him pay but he spent all day outside with the last of his snowmen until he had to go and face his punishment!

He puts the snowman back on the box and settles back down, he's feeling a little better then he remembers that Connor's gone home to his Mam! and the coldness creeps back in but not quite so far as Lucas catches sight of all the wonderful snowy things that sit on his box.




To be continued......