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haha. Well, thank you! @calidris

Will Ku find romantic love… I’m sad to say I don’t know yet. I can’t really say yet…

Ku is very close with her adopted family. But… you know, she’s a teenager. lol. Especially with her background, teenage years is where she really seeks to find her place outside her family and has those pesky questions about her own worth and who her parents were and why they abandoned her, etc.

(My cousin, who I was close with, had a close friend in high school who was an abortion survivor – ie. she survived an attempted abortion as an infant…!!! – she was adopted by a loving family as a young child, but it was her high school years where she really started asking questions about her own self-worth and who her biological parents were and why they had tried to kill her, etc. Even to the point of depression and thoughts of suicide. She actually did find her biological mother and had some of her questions answered, but I think it really was my cousin’s friendship with her and her Christian example and engagement with church that saved my cousin’s friend. – – in a way, a lot of Ku’Aya stems from that story…)

But yeah, Ku normally has really tough skin. =).  She’s snarky and a little prickly at times. Ehud has her at odds with herself. lol.

I do plan for this to be a series with lots of books to follow, so there may be a love interest or life-long friend in the future, but I’m just not sure yet. She is still rather young, more like a pre-teen than a full-on teenager.

I will say this. Menna is Ku’Aya’s adopted sister (Menna is another orphan Abirami invited into his family, along with Menna’s little brother, Setti who I spoke of before…) Menna is an evianian (a flying race) which is a matriarchal race, which means the women are generally those in seats of power while the males are the warriors (the females can’t fly but have feathers for hair that comes down to their shoulders, but the males have large wings on their backs that allow them to fly). So Menna, in the first books, comes across as snobbish, especially in her reactions with Ku’Aya. They fight like cats and dogs – like oil and water, they don’t mix well.

But that’s the wonder about names, right. hehe. Ku’Aya (meaning ‘many blessings’) grows into her name as the books progress, as she learns to love and open up to a world that had spurned her for so long, and Menna, which means ‘grace/favor’ starts off not very gracious at all, but as the books go on, she becomes more benevolent and gracious. As this happens, there will be a very strong kinship that grows between them and they will later become, well… inseparable is the wrong word, but they will be connected in a very strong way. This also occurs rather naturally as they work together to overcome some rather harsh situations together.

lol. a long answer for a short, simple question.