Chapter 26: Syd Wakes Up, TooThey sat at a picnic table not too far from the lake.
Syd looked around again, trying to reconnect with reality. The lake was still frozen on the surface, but the October sun was warm and would take care of that soon. News people were hanging around the lake. The frozen ducks had been carried away a few minutes ago. Kids were out playing as though nothing weird had happened. Then again, they were kids. That was what kids did when faced with danger or the unexplained: They tried to move on. To bring back normal quick. Maybe that was what he wanted to do now, too. Move on. Forget this whole f****d-up thing. After all, that was how he’d survived his childhood.
Subconscious head trip or not, he’d faced some hard truths about himself at the Misty. He knew he had s
