“Nora?”
Mira’s voice woke me into deepening twilight. I must have dozed off. Vestiges of a familiar dream clung to my mind as I sat up and looked around.
“There you are.” Mira walked toward me. “You’ve been gone for a couple of hours. Jill was worried.”
“I fell asleep.” My mind felt clouded. I shouldn’t be this tired and groggy. This wasn’t just from the dreams.
“What happened?” Mira asked me.
“I… needed some air,”
“Okay,” Mira answered, not understanding, but accepting what I had said. “It’s getting cold. Are you ready to go back?”
“Yeah, give me a minute. Is Jill mad?”
“I don’t think so, but you broke the front door. Tony went to the hardware store to get stuff to fix it. He was working on it when I left.”
“The door?” I vaguely remembered going through it.
“It was practically r
