NIGHTMARE

I had a really bad dream last night - the sort where you wake up in a cold sweat and wonder if it was real.
I don't often have nightmares and can rarely remember my dreams, but this was so vivid I can remember all the details.
It began when Charles and I had taken the girls to 'someplace'. The place was indistinct, but for some reason we put the girls into a shower room. What we hadn't noticed was that instead of a covered drain, this one had a big open plug hole, just big enough for a puppy to fall into.
And that is what happened.
We could hear Lily barking madly and went back to the shower room to find her peering down the plug hole - but there was no sign of Rose.
Of course, I had hysterics because it was obvious that she had disappeared into the depth of the drains and, somehow, I managed to squeeze myself, with Lily in my arms, down the plug hole and into the drains to search for her.
The awful bit (as if falling into the drains wasn't bad enough) was that when I looked down I could see a very limp Rose surrounded by lots of black scratching biting things that, on closer inspection, turned out to be miniature rats with wings.
The sense of panic at this point in the nightmare was tangible and I heaved myself (and Lily) up the plug hole to tell Charles what I had seen and that he needed to get down there quickly because I didn't know if Rose would survive.
CHARLES also managed to squeeze through the plug hole and the last I heard was him yelling, 'I'VE GOT HER...'
And then I woke up, so have absolutely no idea if she was safe or not.
After that I couldn't get back to sleep properly and, although I dozed, all I really wanted to do was to make sure that both puppies were okay!!!
I couldn't wait to get up this morning, where I found, thankfully, that both pups had survived the night completely unscathed!!!