#the immortals

Actual Average Daine Problem: This extremely old and/or powerful magical being wants to destroy every person and animal I know and love and I'm the only one that can do something to stop it from happening.

Actual Average Kel Problem: Some boys/men are being stupid.

Average Aly Problem: An extremely powerful being is using me as a chess piece in their game of politics and I'm the only one who can ensure the people I care about make it through it all alive.

Having survived the events surrounding the Carthaki coup, Daine and Arram are left dealing with the fallout. Immortal incursions sow chaos across the known world, something strange is brewing in the north, and everyone is having trouble talking honestly about their feelings.

When I was old I became close to my death. He slept next to me snoring like a freight train, his bony elbows digging into my ribs; once he left a filament of saliva on my wrist. We ate together, equally voracious: he snatched a strand of clam linguine from my open mouth. Evenings we walked side by side in Flatbush lost in our symptoms, reciting them like prayers, my kneecap my shoulder the small of my back, each determined to be the one who suffers. Still we were not immune to a crocus pushing up through a sidewalk crack—in fact that beauty seared us like flame; a child’s voice thrilled us singing the alphabet forwards and backwards. We both felt like exiles among those tenements, both of us had stopped calling friends, we wrote only the briefest of notes to our remaining families— we’d each entered silence. Still, when he was gone to the bathroom or to the lobby to pick up mail I felt a surge of panic: Am I immortal? Will I have to live forever, alone in this vast city?

Hell Yes!!!

Kaya'aton'my is a young girl living in a Nimíipuu village in 1764. An avid animal lover, she is bold and brave, but doesn’t often think before she acts, which can lead to very bad consequences. When her selfishness results in the loss of her sister, Kaya works hard to regain what she has lost and become the leader she has always dreamed of being.

Kaya was first released in 2002.