

Then a Mask emerges from the darkness.ĭarin does not run when the Mask asks him to.

At the gate, he pushes his sister behind him. From the backyard, they could hear a fist pounding on the front door. They were to hide in east end of the Quarter. He attempted to escape with Laia while Nan and Pop held the Martials off. On sensing the night raid coming to them, he asks Laia to hide his sketchbook then hastens to the back door where he obtains a large kitchen knife from Pop. However, some rebels give out his name to the Martials, which then causes them to set the night raid in motion.

He did not want Nan and Pop to know about his drawings of swords in the sketchbook, because it could risk his and Teluman's lives. Darin had been going back and forth between and their home and and the quarter for about months, leaving Laia to fill in his duty of helping Pop healing patients. He was impressed therefore he took him in and Darin was apprenticed to make fine Teluman weapons for the Scholars.Īt the beginning of the novel, Darin comes home late, presumably from Teluman's forge at the Weapons Quarter because he smells of steel and coal - he had used the tunnels to get to the forge. One day, Teluman caught him red-handed while spying and saw his drawings. He was drawing the inside of Teluman's forge and had been designing his own weapons which he kept in his sketchbook. This page may contain spoilers! Do not proceed unless you wish to be spoiled.ĭarin had been spying on Spiro Teluman of whom his forefathers were the first-class smith in Serra. He is skinny and has Mirra's sweet, crooked smile and unruly, sandy hair. His courage is a quiet type.ĭarin is the spitting image of his mother. Like his mother, Darin can be as immovable as the mountains when he wants to be. Darin is an excellent artist and loves to draw in his sketchbook. Darin is not interested in becoming a healer like his grandfather. He is courageous, observant, alert, and knowledgeable. Darin is similar to his mother in temperament.
