is split by lightening over the lake as I find myself near my cottage. Had I been dreaming? Could one sleepwalk while walking awake?

I was most always disoriented after a walk between this world and the otherside and only did it on occassion when I felt I was safer walking there than here. Especially during the moon's full phase in the Cotswolds and Drakesheath.

Raindrops began to slowly pelt my now bare head. I raised my face to welcome the rain as the drops grew larger and fell faster and harder. Laughing, I opened the cottage door and called out to Mother then I crossed the room to where she sat near a closed window and leaned to greet her.

"O my, my child! You are soaked!" she protested. Then she laughed as I pressed my cool wet cheek against her warm dry one. Patting a seat beside her she continued. "Come tell me all about your evening."

I smiled and responded, "That could take a while. Let me put on some water before I begin."