I sit up and open my eyes. I smell coffee. I call out through the tent flap "Is that coffee I smell?" A woman enters. "Yes, I'm afraid all I have to serve it in are these old teacups we found last night." "Good morning. I must Thank You for the mushroom tea last night." "You're so welcome. How do you feel this afternoon?" "Afternoon?, I-" "It's after four." "Gosh you let me sleep---" "You weren't asleep. You were gone." "But I was...I was here, wasn't I?" She puts her teacup down and pats me on the shoulder. "C'mon pal, I mean gone as in, not here. Glad you're back." I blanch, she laughs. "That's okeh. We all get a little beyond and between. Look, I found this old mirror on the trail."

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