Aja Killian

    Aja Killian is the Traveler from Veelox. Aja was an orphan, raised in a group home that trained intelligent children to work to their full potential. She was adopted by Evangeline, one of the workers at the home, who she now calls her aunt and acolyte. The former traveler was Headmistress Nilssin, who was the headmistress of the school Aja attended. She was then promoted to what is called a "Senior Phader" on her territory. A "Senior Phader" is a person who helps control other people's "jumps" into a "Matrix" like dreamworld called Lifelight. She is concerned about the fact that the people of her territory prefer the 'fantasy world' over reality. Her territory is crumbling because its inhabitants spend more time in this dreamworld instead of living in the real world. To destroy her territory's dependence on this dreamworld, Lifelight, she creates "The Reality Bug". This bug is a computer virus that makes Lifelight fantasies less than desirable, so that people may be encouraged to leave Lifelight and live their own lives. However, the bug works far too well, actually harming the people in Lifelight, creating the conflict in The Reality Bug.

In The Pilgrams of Rayne, the other Travelers visit Veelox and Aja tells them that the Lifelight system is destroyed. After the people in Lifelight ran out of gloid, a food substitute, the people were dying in such mass numbers so quickly they were not even pulled from their fantasies. After facing this morbid reality, Aja comes up with a plan to save as many people as she could: she moved everybody to an island, which is known as Ibara. She plans to execute a pilgrimage once the population of Ibara is steady to repopulate and recivilize the original territory, Veelox. This pilgrimage she tries ultimately fails. Bobby Pendragon asks her to leave her home territory of Veelox for reasons undisclosed, but after pressing for the reason why, Aja was explained to by Siry Remudi, the traveler from Ibara, that she would be assassinated before the departure of the forty. She is afraid that her survival may change the future of Veelox and Ibara forever. She appears in the end of Raven Rise with all of the other travelers. She is currently deceased on Ibara but alive on Veelox.