"Yes, I have lived here all of my life. For a while it was all I knew aside from the worlds I visited through books and sheer imagination," Dove said. Her parents had simply not known what to do with a gender-shifting, appearance shuffling child. And so had used their wealth to fake the birth of a second child, recorded her birth as being a twin one and hidden her away from society.

"My childhood is in these trees," Dove said, looking around with a smile before stopping to dismount. "We're close enough that we could go on foot from here, if you want."