I woke up in the middle of the night sweating. Considering it was winter and I’d left the window open, I couldn’t really figure out why I was sweating. After a half hour of tossing and turning, I couldn’t get back to sleep. I threw on some clothes and hopped out my open window, climbing down the side of the house and heading for the tree line. In the darkness of the early morning, my shirt was soon lightly frozen to my chest and my breath was visible in the moonlight. I walked through the woods, using one trail that I knew went deep into the woods. The large natural reserve was closed, of course, but climbing the fence and walking around was one of my favorite past times.
The moon was just reaching its peak, so it was somewhere around three am when I reached the waterfall pool. A large ri
