Drabble: From the Summit of White Hause

Helen sailed the Lapetus ocean in the bright noonday sun and imagined the silt, sandstone and mudstone building beneath her.

She sailed it again, millenia later. No lazy afternoon this, she dodged flying volcanic rock.

Mere tens of millions of years and she could walk the arid land. There were no eruptions that day.

Then it eroded into the Carboniferous seas where she snorkled among the brightly coloured fish.

The ice ages rolled over it, carving curves into the sediment and volcanic rock. Helen watched the Lake District change and knew she could never again remain shackled to one time.