The second morning, I stood in front of the mirror in my room as I prepared myself to set out.

I tied my shoulder-length hair back in a ponytail behind my neck. Some hair at the side of my face wasn’t long enough to be tied back, so I let it hang next to my face. 

Then, I put on the voice converter that Raffles had made and tested my voice, “Ah, ah!” Very good, I have a boy’s voice now.

Next was a disguiser gel mask that was thinner than a face mask. Once I put it on my face, it subtly reshaped my facial features into a young man’s.

The disguiser mask that Raffles had made wouldn’t change your features but only amend them slightly. For example, it would thicken a girl’s fine eyebrows and add defined edges to my nose, lips and jawlines. I looked like how my twin brother would look if I had one. The others could still tell it was me, just that I looked more manly.

I put on...