The Allen of Osla had a secret unknown to outsiders: the sole heir of the Allen family was a patient with two personalities. One carried his father's surname, Yale Allen, and the other carried his mother's surname, Asher Harrington. Unaware of each other's existence, their names both stemmed from a line of poetry: "Across the wild ferry, no one in sight, a solitary boat lays askew."
In Yale's eyes, his father was a philanthropist. In Asher's eyes, his father was a phony philanthropist.
There was another secret within the Allen family: Zack Allen's legal wife was originally pregnant with twins. They had already picked out names for them before they were born, one was Yale and the other was Asher. However, on the day of their birth, Zack attacked his wife, and only one twin was saved, named Yale.
Asher was a split personality that emerged when Yale was fourteen, and they did not share memories.
