Tag Archives: Darkind Promises

Isobeau is featured as the confidant. She is The Healer. She will help Maura and Zelia in Dar’kind Promises. She has been the protector for Wren in (W/T) Dragon’s Mark. She will be Kiernan’s Love in (W/T) Dragon’s Soul. She is a significant character who will later lead to the discovery of Ardith in Dragon’s Soul.

Her voice is described this way: “Izzy’s voice made you feel good all over. She explained her warn and unusual accent as a combination of native tribal mother and Scottish father.” by Wren. She has long dark hair that falls in waves around her shoulders and back. She has a certain gypsy quality of mystery and freedom.

She is one of the Dragon race and sister to the Royal Twins, Ethan and Caleb. Not many people know that. Isobeau holds her own secret as well.  She has been labeled a recessive. That’s how she was accepted into the Watchers. Her recessive trait is also why when she is taken back to WyrmArach she is sentenced to be given as a pleasure slave. What they don’t know is Isobeau can transform. Like her brothers her transformation is unique and so unusual it must remain hidden forever rather than reveal the abomination she is. Some call her a witch. Some call her a freak.

The Dragon Guardian is mentioned in Dar’kind Promises. Just who is the Dragon Guardian and what is the significance. She is on the fringe of the story. The villian talks of her and has plans for her.

As the events of Dar’kind Promises unfold the Dragon Guardian is being revealed. Isobeau recognized her some time ago and has been keeping an eye on her to keep her safe. Isobeau is one of the “Watchers” Alas, a secret for another day. Suffice it to say, the watchers have kept the Guardian hidden and safe while she has grown to womanhood. They might not be able to keep her safe much longer. Naturally, the young guardian has no idea she’s being watched and guarded. Cathwren comes from a powerful heritage. Will she live long enough to learn to control her emerging powers?

Wren and Isobeau are friends. Isobeau reads tarot cards at Wren’s shop once a week for clients. Wren is going to have a disasterous date with a man she and Isobeau have nicknamed “Stinking Ron”. Wren’s life is getting ready to change. She has a heritage she doesn’t know about and a destiny she hasn’t chosen.

The Town.

The setting for this story is identified as a small town in rural North Florida. It has not been named in any published work yet. Where is this little oasis of paranormal wonder you ask? I guess I have hesitated to call the town by it’s real name and I haven’t settled on its fictitious name yet.

Here are the clues. It is about 45 minutes west of Jacksonville. It is about 45 minutes north of Gainesville. Two major highways run from the east to the west through the town. Half the county is federal forest. i.e. a small rural town in North Florida. LOL. There are shops on main street through town. The apartments and stores are made up.  None of the characters in my stories resemble any of the real people who live in that town. The characters are totally invented.

This small rural town is the location of Salynne’s Crystals and Thyme and Thompson, Thornton, and Castellano, Attorneys at Law featured in another story. Can you name that story?

Salynne’s Crystals and Thyme is mentioned in the story. Zelia went by the shop tracking Isobeau. She sensed dragons presence and was able to pick out Isobeau’s trail.

Salynne’s is a curio shop with herbs, crystals, interesting objects, jewelry, oddities. It is a location where Wren does her part for local artists by featuring their work for sale. Magical supplies are for sale. It is owned by Cathwren Aldridge “Wren” for short. The shop is part of the downtown commerce section of a small rural town in North Florida. The shop is the corner of the building. The shops continue down the main street.  The second floor has apartments. Wren lives over her shop. Where did the name come from? My middle child’s first and middle names are Sabra Lynne. Salynne’s was created from that merge of names. I love the way Salynne’s Crystals and Thyme rolls off the tongue.

The shop has been featured in another one of my stories. Can you name the object and the story?

There isn’t a direct mention of the Dragon Races in this Dar’kind Promises story. There is a reference from Verucca’s POV. She was old when the royal twins were born.

“Drab robes swirled around the crone’s  legs while she stretched her arms over her head. In recent years movement without pain became harder and harder. She’d been old when the royal twins were born and they were men, grown now. She ignored her creaking joints and made grand sweeping motions in the air, accompanied by incantations in an ancient language.”

Who were the royal twins she’s talking about? One day I will reveal the secret of their birth.

Many generations ago, a class division erupted resulting in the Arach human clan becoming the ruling power and the Wyrm clan the response driven muscle behind the power. The joint distinction faded through the passage of time to become Wyrmarach a bastardization pronounced Were March of the classic WyrmArach world. The significance of the joined name is lost on the inhabitants.

Their world is separated from ours by a wide gulf of difference protected by the veil. In their world order reigns under the guidance of an autocratic matriarch with a very specific view of acceptable moral citizenry.  A Queen whose mind set is so oppressive her own sons were banished as an embarrassment to her rule.

Ethan and Caleb Monroe, the prince heirs, are in a word, unusual. They live among us in exile, charged with enforcing that the barrier between our worlds remains intact.

A messiah is needed to usher in a new era of Wyrmarach understanding and tolerance. Where can salvation be found? The curtain between dimensions is thinning tempting some to look to Earth Dimension for answers. Wouldn’t it be unusual if salvation rested in the hands of a somewhat ordinary human named Cathwren, who turns out to not be very ordinary at all.