Chapter 3

WInter breaks starts and limps like an old grandma. Days past staring out the window ever seeing the panther again bunch of crops growing and too busy cleaning and cutting. Outside Jamie could see lots of people walking and soldiers going round the country. Inside Mr Ayan was making dinner and staring in wonder what’s going on. The weather starts to change, the rain blushes in and in an 1 or 2 the horizon peaks over and the warm sun comes out. The stress crowds again people walking on the streets and some in the forest.In Birmingham was so crowded no one could go ast and in Manchester people would just go another route. In Birmingham there was a river that went through the town and a waterfall at the back of the town people where ice but in Manchester some people are not. The sun suddenly turned and the crops died in shock. What could have caused this he wondered. The horizon tipped over and never to be seen in another  12 to 13 hours. Gray smoke drifted from the spinly chimney and devoured in seconds. Jimmy found something that no person had never discovered and stood still in shock.

In the morning he would not show himself because he did not want to be in the light and wanted to go to sleep. 

At night, we traveled through the woods where we played with the panther.They would stare at the villagers house or the night sky.Sometime the panther’s eyes would move to a direction if they heard footsteps or rustling he would return sometimes to bring food for us. At night an owl would fly through the night as a wandering ghost looking for something that had fallen. They would sit down looking at the moon wishing a glittering,shiny star shot by. There would be ghost people wandering in the village singing  a song .

The darkness swept the valley. At night he thought that the unknown secret would be out forever and thought that his only friend might die. They flew again giving us hope. 

It happened.That night at the end of June Jimmy walked through the darkness of the woods.When a scream and a loud growl up ahead.He recalled the panthers call and rushed for help running through bushes and in the light and tree facing the panther..And their he was staring face to faces with Mr Uzair “ji..j…jim”he stammed taking a step back terrified of being eaten.

 I tried to get caught by the panther eye and held the rabbits out. Mr Uzair showed me how to catch creatures and ran gripping on to my hand and slurping the rabbit out. Mr Uzair ran trooping in the woods to the village in shock.Their was little sound of Mr Uzair tripping in the woods. We ran back into the panther’s lair and hid for an hour or so.Jimmy’s heart pumped to 100 beats per minute and ran up crompton lane and into the village running through the back door.What now?

The secret that had been kept for years and years was let out in the village.That night Jimmy and Mr Ayan talked through the night. They thought of an Idea of moving the mananoir to a safer place through the woods and to the beach walking to the island with water and food and creatures that were easy to kill.He would live unseenable in the darkness and we could see him sometimes and bring food to him.