He towers in the doorway of the school hall. Impossibly huge. Rainwater streaming down his gabled shoulders. Taking off his helmet he asks a question.
Two hundred children shuddered in fright, kept silent for a while then broke out into spontaneous chatter, some of it, no doubt included references like Jack and the Beanstalk, Gulliver’s Travels and Seven at One Blow.
He asks the question again, his voice booming through the empty 3/4ths of the auditorium seeming to rattle the chinky wooden shutters. Like a roll of thunder it passed by and above all of us…. All the way back behind the last row where we never dared go for fear of what we may find.
There was not one from within our ranks with an answer.
Finally, she jumped up. Trembling, part with trepidation, part with fear of the unknown she made her way to the door as glee spread through the scholarly mob for she who towered over us was now being towered at. The terrifier was now being terrified. Fortunately the engagement did not last long and with a quick nod, he put his helmet back on and headed out.
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