Book Five: The Long Lost

I was out of bed and thundering down the stairs before I was awake enough to realize the person I felt in the back yard wasn't the one I had been waiting for.

Panting, I pulled open the inside door, peering through the screen into the dark beyond. The motion activated light flickered to life, casting a ghostly glow over Sunny's smiling face.

"Hi, Syd."

I pulled the door open, yawning as my disrupted sleep caught up to me. "Hey, ...