First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Wonderscape

It was early morning and Arthur was already running late for school when the gnomes exploded.
Racing past his neighbours’ houses, he’d just cornered a road on Peacepoint Estate when he came to the old cottage at Number Twenty-Seven. Without warning, there was a loud bang! and a barrage of brightly coloured missiles came whizzing out of the front garden in all directions.