I always intended to go to college and finish right after high school, but I was a moron that fell in love with a dude from another country, eloped, dropped out, and moved to said country (Canada) in hopes of resuming college up there. That never happened, lol.
Ten years later and I'm divorced and back in the States. Go figure. Ah, such is life.
I had no plans for Kiara's parents -- I just tossed that little bit in there to make things interesting. So far, there's nothing planned to back that statement up, but that can be developed later. I like planting little plot seeds here and there, hehe.
Sidia is just Obsidian without the first two letters, lol. I wanted the last name after some sort of rock or stone or what-not.