Sunny listens intently to Magnu's story. It all sounds so incredibly familiar, except completely the opposite from her experience. When Sunny first arrived at the mansion, she was convinced if she just looked hard enough, Violet and Klaus would show up in a room somewhere. Once she realized they weren't here yet, she switched to waiting. And she waited, and she waited, and she waited. And then she waited some more.

But another visitor's day has come and gone, and her siblings did not show up. Maybe Magnu saw Alex on the first visitor's day, and that made it harder to hope he would show up for good, but he did show up for good.

Violet and Klaus didn't even get to show up for visitor's day.

That is what makes it really hard for Sunny to hope. She thinks if they did show up, surely she could figure out a way for them to stay, like how Phelia stayed, and like how Alex came back to stay. But if they don't show up at all, they must not have any sort of way to get here in the first place. If they were here she could at least have a chance.

Her former coworker Phil was an optimist, which meant he thought hopeful and pleasant thoughts about nearly everything, even situations that were neither pleasant nor full of hope. Sunny thinks that if he were here right now, he might tell her that Violet and Klaus will probably show up any minute now, and that the fact they didn't get to come visit just means they are waiting until they can move here permanently.

Sunny, as it turns out, is not much of an optimist.

She curls up in her brother's lap, fairly certain he's the only sibling she is going to ever have here.