When it happened
‘Bettrys, Bettrys?’ When she opened her eyes she saw mum’s face and she had Bevyn by her side. They both looked scared, Bevyn was shivering and her teeth were chattering. Mum started to cry and through her tears told Bettrys that something sad had happened to dad and Brac because of the bad thing from the sky. Mum asked Bettrys if she was hurt and if she could still run? Bettrys felt shaken she was bruised and cold, but she knew she didn’t have any big hurts.
Mum told Bettrys to follow her quietly so the bad thing in the sky could not hear them. She led Bettrys and Bevyn through the forest to a hole in the bottom of a tree, where they huddled together quietly. It was hard to believe what mum had told her, it couldn’t be true, this wasn’t really happening to her, it was like a bad dream.
Bettrys’ tears wouldn’t come and neither did Bevyn’s. It felt like they were in the tree hole together for a long, long time. There were lots of strange noises and they all felt scared that something bad might happen again.
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will never forget that awful day. They had all been fast asleep, mum, dad, Brac and Bevyn, when suddenly, there was a terrible noise that seemed to come from the sky. It was so loud they couldn’t hear each other, and everything was ripped up, and thrown about, and something big and hard like huge teeth appeared from nowhere. It grabbed the whole lodge in its mouth and shook it hard.
Bettrys heard screams and shouting from mum and dad, ‘Run, run, getaway….’ Only there was nowhere to run to. The ground was moving, she felt like she was being lifted higher and higher before suddenly she felt herself falling to the ground. Bettrys couldn’t remember what happened after that as everything went dark.