![]() Meanwhile, lacking water, the poverty stricken Droughtlanders are driven farther and farther away to a rumoured land called Triskelia. Now the Keylanders manipulate the weather by seeding the rain clouds over their city. ![]() The world they live in, where water has replaced oil as the source of power and control, isn't a kind one. Seth, like his father, also dislikes his maman, whom Eli adores, even as he avoids his father at every turn. Taking the cue from their power-mad father, the boys hate each other with a passion, with Seth at every opportunity berating and physically beating "Eliza", Eli. They are to leave on a search-and-destroy mission against the rebellious Droughtlanders. He despises one twin son, Eli, as a wimp and tolerates the other twin, Seth, as a suck-up who promises to join the Keyland Guards when he turns sixteen in a few months. ![]() Edmund, the father and Chief Regent of the water-rich East Keylanders, never did take to his French-speaking wife, Lisette, a former Droughtlander. The Maddox familyùof Vancouver author Carrie Mac's adrenalin-pumping futuristic novel, The Droughtlandersùbrings heightened meaning to being dysfunctional. ![]()
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