The war was over, two families had managed to escape the damage deep in the swamps. The Devons and the Merauxs did not have any problems they could not overcome as long as they were together. They came from above Layfayette, New Orleans and hacked out a life with their bare hands.Near the the wilds of the Gulf and the delta, they avoided the Union army, Confederate desserters, and fiercely overcame danger from outlaws. They embraced the new south. The darkness that permeated within Pearl Slag seemed meager until a slight collaboration with a Back Water Woods spellcrafter. When Pearl wanted a man, she would stop at nothing. Through her new means of darkness and witchery, she would do whatever it took to have the man that she so dearly coveted.