Properties of Thirst

Sunny thinks about Stryker. Because he was the reckless one, he always forced her to be the twin who adhered to the rules. Rocky has attempted to determine the whereabouts of Stryker’s new wife, Suzy, but can’t obtain any information on her. Again, Sunny muses on her mother’s cookbooks and notes, recalling how over the years she taught herself to untangle her mother’s recipes and learned to cook. She benefited, too, from the garden her mother planted, filled with both native and non-native vegetables and herbs. The challenging element for Sunny was fish, which wasn’t readily available. At age 12, she asked Cas to take her to a fish market in Los Angeles. Instead, she and Stryker were informed that Christmas that their gifts were separate trips to Europe: Stryker with Rocky to England and Scotland, and Sunny with Cas to Paris.

Both groups departed from New York City, but whereas Rocky and Stryker flew to New York, Cas and Sunny took a train. Aboard, Sunny ate many foods for the first time, including oyster and lobster, and recorded the details of everything in several notebooks. One night, Cas gave her a photo of Lou on her wedding day.

They arrived in New York and were picked up by Declan, the family chauffeur.