The most frequently asked question, or complaint about coining, is, by far, that the brief flashback with Mithlia and the references to a mysterious “incident” are never further explored, and the whole thing feels kind of out of nowhere. Honestly, I agree, we should have had more information on this in chapter one, but we never wrote it in. There is a story behind the incident, and a reason Mithlia is like that, but at this point it’s more amusing to leave it at that for now.

There does happen to be a hypothetical spin off in vague future consideration, which would include these answers, and I can share a little about that without spoiling anything: it would mostly be set a decade after the end of TCOA. The protagonists would be Lily, Abdelrahim, and perhaps Lunde, as well as some other people we haven’t introduced yet. the themes would be much darker than TCOA, as it would explore the unknown consequences of the its ending on the distant continent of Somebody-Else’s-Probland, (yes that is the official name.) as Lily seeks the answers to her family’s ancient past, and Abdelrahim accompanies her, while coping with an unexpected loss, they stumble into an undiscovered catastrophe of epic proportion, and must struggle to preserve their very lives. of course this is very hypothetical and definitely would not begin until we’ve finished with TCOA.