Adelaide Quincy's home life is... not something she likes to talk about. Not if she's telling the truth, that is, but she'll tell tales for days if you let her. She'll tell you her parents work for the government, or that they're astronauts, or teachers, or sheep farmers! Or she'd tell you that they're always there when she gets home from school. It's easier to tell people her dad travels for business than to admit she doesn't even know where he went or if he'll even come back. It’s easier to tell people her mum’s out of town than to explain that she died when AJ was six.

AJ has always been a clever girl. She loves puzzles and riddles, when she was little all her mom had to do to calm her down was give her something to figure out. Number games, word games, anything of the sort would catch her attention and she wouldn't leave until she figured them out. The only problem was that being smart... well, it didn't mean being popular. (Adelaide would have you know she didn't care about popularity. At. All.) And once the popular kids decided she wasn't cool, everyone else followed suit. Still, she would insist she was fine with being alone. She had her family and she was just fine.