Kitty Stiles (Eden Rising)

"I’m ordinary. I don’t want to have to compete again in a world where I don’t... I don’t fit in.  I want to keep being myself.  Ordinary.  I guess I can reach far, but it hurts.  I don’t do it right. I know I’ll learn, but in the meantime, just let me be lost, weak, lonely.  Let me be confused, scared.  I’m just another girl, just another victim of this cruel world, just another lost soul, and I demand the right to be weak.  I demand the right to lie sobbing on the floor, my own arms tight around my body.  I demand the right to say that I can’t stand this anymore, that I’m too exhausted to go on.  I demand the right to scream, to shake, to wither away."

- Kitty, begging to her husband Xander.

Kitty Drake is the doting wife to Xander, and a major supporting character in ''Eden Rising. Kitty's husband Xander is a man who was once "so perfect" but in the years since world order collapsed, has grown cold and verbally abusive toward her. Kitty is a weak woman who struggles to find her inner strength. Kitty is the best friend of Gwen Hayes, and finds herself trying to mimic Gwen's tough girl behavior, but failing spectacularly at it. Kitty is a medical assistant who had to put her training on a standstill in order to be a full-time nanny for her sister Lori's son, Joey, in Lori's constant absences. Kitty joined Tom Snyder's group alongside her family after the invasion of New Venice by The General, and has since struggled with finding her place in the group and making herself useful under her husband's constant berating remarks.