Magic Parcel - The Awakening

Jimmy Scoggins is nine and like most nine year olds he is lively inquisitive and sometimes a bit of a handful. Since his father had died Jimmy lacks that regular male influence a growing boy needs. His Uncle Reuben is a welcome help to Jimmys at times exasperated mother. But uncle Reuben is much more than he appears and Jimmy has no idea the trouble adventure and danger he is about to face when he volunteers to deliver the important Parcel to the local Post Office for his favourite uncle. Tommy Jimmys thirteen year old brother knows. He knows just what the Parcel is and as he races after his brother he wonders if Jimmy will be able to handle the excitement and adventure. And if he cant will Tommy find Jimmy in time to help?...Almost imperceptibly the confines of the room gave way to a hilltop covered in grassy heath tussocks the chair became a fallen tree stump and the chill had grown steadily to become a knee-deep icy mist. It was as if Reuben had become part of the tapestry. Was it by his design? Or had he been summoned? The clouds above him gathered ominously not for the weather they might bring but for another different onslaught they might unleash - - Autumnal leaves stopped mid-fall. Everything became still except for Reubens breeze-disturbed hair. The gloom closed in until only his slightly glowing face could be seen.