Come Home (EP)

Come Home is the first EP released as part of Averno. It features three songs; Forest Hymn, How to Let Go, and Nova Phone Home, and was created as an homage to the feeling so many of us have, that Averno and the family we have found here is home.

Forest Hymn

If you drive far enough on route 66 in the dead of night, you’ll feel a tug. An echo. The whispers of ghosts in the moonlight, a siren song to the believers. It is a song of the deep woods, of blackberry thickets heavy in the dead of summer, of cicadas and bones peeking out of dark earth, of eyes always watching and the voices of those long-silenced. It is a calling—Come home.

How To Let Go (Willow)

Cassia is one of the Wild Ones—the children saved from abusive homes in Averno and brought into the Forest, raised wild beneath the stars. They are the Lost Boys of the Forests’ Neverland, a family made not born. But every Wild One must make a choice- when they become an adult, they can either leave the forest, meet the outside world, or stay young in the forest, until their time comes to become a Shadow Mother. Cassia chose the latter, and now, after decades of running through the streams and glades, it is her time to go. And she thinks she’s ready- until she meets Grace. How to Let Go is in act two of Willow, while Cassia grapples with all of the mixed up and tangled roots in her heart- she is on this earth, but her mind is elsewhere, she’s afraid of death, afraid of leaving, but also afraid to stay. She so badly wants to go home- but she doesn’t know where that is.

Nova Phone Home (Over and Out)

Nova is also a Wild One—but when she was given the choice, she chose to leave. To find what else is out there. She leaves the Forest at the end of the summer and starts school at A New School. But growing up in the Forest doesn’t exactly prepare you for freshman year of college. Armed only with a special interest in stars, a walkie talkie, and a chaotic assortment of clothes from a thrift store, Nova faces the world completely unequipped. She misses every reference, doesn’t even know what ketchup is, doesn’t know how to do facial expressions correctly, and eventually, a joke develops—Nova is an alien. Nova phone home.