I am currently reading Keeper of the Lost Cities: Neverseen which is a book about a girl named Sophie and her friends who all live in the lost cities. The lost cities are made up of elves with special abilities and the cities are built mostly from jewels and crystals. It is a place of peace, with no prejudice against skin color, or wealth, or religion. Everyone gets a birthfund (5 million lusters (one luster is equal to about 1 million dollars)) when they are born, and everyone lives in large mansions and has an infinite lifetime. The lost cities have been the perfect society for millions of years, but things are now unravelling when groups of secret rebels are being formed to try and “fix” the flaws in their society. The Neverseen are the bad guys and the Black Swan are the good guys. One of the characters is a prankster named Keefe who has terrible and emotionally abusive parents, he just found out that his mom is one of the leaders of the Neverseen. He and his friends are all fleeing to the black swan and are sitting in the foyer of someone’s house right before they leave and are all telling one of the adults things to tell their parents like “I love you” or “Don’t worry”. Then comes Keefe’s turn.
“Tell my dad… that I’ve been hiding his favorite cape in a closet one the twenty-ninth floor. But don’t tell him the door is rigged with gulon gas. Let him find that out on his own.”
For a little more context elves wear capes as a sign of status and Keefe live in a building with 200 floors, and gulons are REALLY stinky toad-like creatures.
