The Kidris Legacy

By Jessi Hammond

Jayden has always been different.

He sees sounds as colours, his eyes are seriously light sensitive, and he sleepwalks.

Kim is used to her little brother's weirdness.

Until the spaceship appears over their small rural town.

And Jayden's odd gifts take on a whole new – and unsettling – meaning.

Now Kim and Jayden have to make a decision with potentially world-wide consequences…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kincaid Publishing
• Release date: Sep 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223259626

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Jayden has always been different.

He sees sounds as colours, his eyes are seriously light sensitive, and he sleepwalks.

Kim is used to her little brother’s weirdness.

Until the spaceship appears over their small rural town.

And Jayden’s odd gifts take on a whole new – and unsettling – meaning.

Now Kim and Jayden have to make a decision with potentially world-wide consequences…

The Kidris Legacy

One

Kim straightened her spine with a groan and flexed her fingers, flapping her hands back and forth to get the writer’s cramp out of them. Her eyes were gritty, her mind was fuzzy, and she was beyond frustrated.

She’d turned off the overhead light in her bedroom at ten, when she’d ‘gone to bed’ at her usual time, relying on the light pooling beneath her small desk lamp to see. She’d shoved rolled-up clothes along the crack in the door so no light would seep out, just in case Mum or Dad got up and rumbled her.

And now it was a quarter to twelve, and she still wasn’t finished the stupid Maths assignment that was due in tomorrow.

Kim sucked at Maths. Sucked at anything science-y or technical, really. She was more creative; she was good at English and Art.

Her little brother Jayden was the same. If anything, he struggled more with the sciences than she did, but he was brilliant at coding and building his own quirky off-beat games and game mods.

He was also shy enough that Mum and Dad had finally used book-bribery to get him to join the high school basketball team, just to give him something outside to do. He liked it enough to keep playing – privately, Kim thought he only did because if he didn’t the team wouldn’t have enough numbers to play.

His friend Dave was as nerdy as he was and the only other person, besides the olds and Kim, who had been at his tenth birthday dinner a few hours ago.

Which had been here, at home, because, surprise! Jayden didn’t do big and flashy.

Or even small and outside the house.

Kim sighed and leaned back in her chair, rubbing at her eyes. She shouldn’t be thinking about Jayden. She should be thinking about algebra. Specifically, the last three of the twenty problems she’d been fighting with for the last three hours. Seriously, As, Bs, Xs and Ys had no business being in a numbers subject. They belonged squarely in English, where –

A shaft of bright light flickered across the wall in front of her, there and gone in less than a second.

‘Whuh?’ She twisted around in her chair. Her curtains were open – her room was upstairs, like Jayden’s and her parents’, and their house, like the others in Boundary Road, backed on to the Reserve so no one could see through her window anyway. But Kim liked to lay in bed and watch the stars.

Astronomy was also something she and Jayden had in common, besides liking to draw. Jayden was actually thinking about studying astronomy at uni… if he could ever get up the courage to leave Trevallier, population five thousand and falling.

Kim frowned at the window. That had looked almost like car