The good thing about having so many names, is when I am called, the name alone gives away much about the caller.
In this case, I’m woken from a dead sleep by a name that would only be used in the Waking side of my house, and even then, only by immediate kin. But everyone else in the house is asleep. The Regulars don’t play around with auditory hallucination tricks. But there is one spirit, attached to my mother, that does. There was no alarm in the call, no sense of urgency. It had the feel of “And another thing, oops, didn’t wake you, did I?”.
Did I mention my mother’s protective spirit likes to play pranks? Hiding keys, throwing voices, tapping on shoulders, and such benign goofs. When it is at play, we tease it back. Everyone laughs, no one has a chapped ass, and the day goes on.
But it doesn’t prank us in the middle of the night, or act maliciously. Guess I’m going to be throwing cards and/or flame scrying tonight.