Seven years ago while Zecheriah was still a part of the breeding program, his genetic material was used to create a female prodigy. 

This human, not even fully developed, was genetically altered to have avian features. She was part of an experiment to see if humans could be given the ability of flight. When she was “born” she was not the cutest thing alive. Her wings were still naked stubs with peach fuzz, her hair on her head was patchy; she did not look fully developed. In order to try and fix this, not waste their precious time waiting for her to grow up as a normal human does, they altered her Pituitary Gland among other drugs to increase her growth factor. 

Sora’s lab results began to show signs of her avian features becoming more prominent as she grew older. Her lungs abide smaller had more aerobic capacity as compared to the average man. Her bones were similar to large birds, consisting of a density of about 0.3g/cm3, whereas an average humans would be 1.5g/cm3. Her bones are mostly air-filled, but reinforced by cross-beams known as trabeculae, making them extremely light. and her muscles larger than the average humans. As her feathers grew in they started as a dull brown, and later when she hit puberty, they molted, transforming into bright vibrant colors wings. Her hair had grown and fanned out, clumping together to resemble the tail feathers of a bird, gaining a golden color at the tips. 

At seven years after her creation, she was more akin to a 14 year old human. The Collective by this time had deemed her a failure. That although she had the advantages and genetics that allowed for flight, her wings just over 7 feet from point to point, were not large enough, nor had her body and muscles developed sufficiently enough to allow for sustained flight. It appeared in order to do so, she had to be more bird like in her body structure than human like. She was however able to glide with the currents given the right conditions, and push off enough to dodge or jump over something, but this was not enough for the Collective. 

And due to her more delicate nature she was unfit for hard labor, and as a failure undesirable for breeding. She was bartered away as an item to a Sentinel who found her looks appeasing to the eyes in the dull world he lived in. She was a bird in a cage, moving from one cell to another… but just as any bird that has never known freedom she did not know what she was missing, and enjoyed her simple life as a pretty bird for her master.

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