 Raised by Woodtroll families all his life, Twig believes at heart he is a woodtroll, yet he strongly suspects there is something different about him, as he does not fit in with the rest of the woodtroll villagers.Twig has been raised in the Deepwoods, far from fourthling civilization, yet he sets off to find his true kind when he learns from his adoptive mother that he is not a woodtroll.His adoptive woodtroll mother tells him to travel to their cousin's house to mull things over, but during Twig's journey through the Deepwoods, he is seduced by the beauty of the woods themselves and ends up straying from the path.