She stirred with a glimmer of consciousness and rolling onto
her side rubbed the silky pillowcase with her cheek. Her eyes still closed she
listened. Something had changed. A moment of drowsy taking in, of savoring the
relaxed state of timelessness half way between asleep and awake she lay still
feeling the earliness of the hour.
She opened her eyes and considered the faint glow of morning
sun against the window shade wondering what had awakened her. Both dogs were
asleep on their rugs. And then she heard it, the soft chirping of the smoke
detector indicating a dead battery.
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