Aery blushed. "Um... Genetic engineering? I mapped the entire human genome, using myself and these five as a base, over the course of two years, and figured out which genes control our physical and mental attributes. It wasn't entirely legal, my research, considering that in some cases I cloned myself and Peter, and in others I raided egg-banks, modified the genes, and allowed the embryos to grow to see what each modification did, and then destroyed them once I'd gotten the data I needed. But my research was so thorough that the other scientists looked the other way about my methods of gathering it." She left out one key thing, however: Every time she destroyed an embryo, every time she vivisected one under a microscope to watch the organelles forming, she wrote her findings down, and then went and cried and cried over murdering the children. Scientifically not children, but in her heart she'd murdered children. Her own children.
Subconsciously she twisted her hands so that the scars on her wrists wouldn't be visible. One hundred and seventy six lacerations on her left forearm, for the one hundred and seventy six children she'd created in a petri dish and then brutally murdered.
She visibly shook her head to clear the thoughts and forced a smile. The smile turned genuine when Orion showed her the rope darts.
"Those are so cool! I've seen them before and I've always wanted to learn to use them, but I've never had the chance to. As far as me, my weapons are pretty simple. My guilty pleasure one is the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower]Atlatl[/url]. It's highly impractical, of course, but so fun. Same with longbow, actually, though people laugh at me when they see me shooting longbow, because almost everyone uses a draw-weight that is heavier than I am!"