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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