Waterstride-Sunrise

As cottages in the countryside go, it was fairly average and easy to spot, being the only one you'd find on Verylongstreet Path.  The village itself was quiet in an unsettling kind of way, the type of place you look forward to leaving once you've arrived.  Mrs. Bundtcake wasn't allowed to live inside the cottage itself, but she'd found herself a pleasant place just up the road, and Doctor Foole said the walk was good for her deep vein thrombosis.   Her ritual was always the same, as she guessed it always would be.  She knocked on the cottage door three times, and if no one told her to go away, she let herself in and made