#darkling setting

While Cara isn't physically with Lizzy and Booker in book two, we still learn more about her and her past through her parents involvement with Connorbar Moore.

In fact, Cara's family home is one of the first places that Andric, Lizzy and Booker go after leaving Speculo.

It's a three floor manor house, and I did a rough sketch of the layout when I was away on holiday. It's since been digitized, but here's a picture the first draft of the ground floor...

But I wanted the setting for Darkling to be quite different not only from the first book, but also from what Lizzy and Booker are used to. There are many stretches of forests and mountains in Arbaon, even large lakes, but neither of them have ever seen an ocean.

So a large portion of Darkling takes place across various seaside locations. The town of Osyth, is the first place Lizzy see's the ocean and she's instantly entranced.

So much so that someone manages to get the drop on her :D