![]() Shortly afterward, though, they get out and run into the wolf-ridden forest nearby, and Lucas sets out to find them. At the same time, three mischievous boys who are in the pageant with him have been eavesdropping on him and decide to lock the sheep in a shed as a prank. He tells Waggles that he has decided to give them to Sister Theresa as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve, Lucas realizes that he won't be able to take his sheep and Waggles to the orphanage with him after Christmas. He shares his dream of seeing snow for the first time with her, as they start to develop feelings for each other. There, he meets a girl named Louisa, another one of the angels who immediately befriends him. In the meantime, he gets to play an angel in the abbey's Christmas pageant with some other children from the village. Later on, Father Thomas tells Sister Theresa of his plans to send Lucas to an orphanage after Christmas. He is fascinated and begins to dream of a "white Christmas". She tells him about snow, something neither he nor anyone else at the abbey has ever seen (the village is "much too close to the sea"). Father Thomas is slightly irritated, but nevertheless, Lucas is allowed to stay at the abbey while he recovers from the accident, and Sister Theresa becomes a mother-figure and mentor to him. Soon, they and the priest, Father Thomas, learn that he has not only been blinded by the accident, but he is an orphan too. A group of kindly nuns named Sister Theresa (the narrator), Sister Jean, and Sister Catherine rescue him, taking him to their abbey nearby. A few weeks before Christmas, a young shepherd named Lucas is struck by lightning while wandering the countryside with his animals, a herd of sheep and a dog named Waggles.
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