Dr Aine Calista Riverstone was, like most of her fairy kin, a healer by nature. Yet her path had diverged early. A fascination with supernatural bloodlines had gripped her, and when she found the knowledge of her people lacking, she ventured into the surface world to study among humans.
She earned her BSc in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Oxford, followed by an MSc in Genetic Engineering at the Karolinska Institute. Her academic ascent culminated in a PhD in Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Her doctoral thesis bore the title: "Unidentified High-Stability Retrotransposons and Their Role in Rapid Phenotypic Expression: A Model for Atypical Heredity," in human terms. It was a veiled exploration of how magical traits were encoded and inherited.
