Prologue: Aren't we fabulous?

So, how's it going? Must be going pretty good if you're reading this. I mean, I might not even be writing this due to many things that I will tell you, and who knows, maybe I'm not. Maybe I just think I'm writing this and this is all a hallucination conjured up by my traumatized mind. Oh, yeah, in my world that could totally happen. But I've forgotten my manners. Let me introduce you.

You have Sonny, a ten year old kid with purple-yes, purple- eyes, pale skin, and a friendly persona. Unless of course you're at the end of one of his sucker-punches, well, then you'd better get out of the way. Oh, and he happens to have dark purple wings. There's Bones, who has red eyes, lightly tanned skin, is fifteen years old, and doesn't really do or say much of anything, and seems half asleep all the time. Unless in a fight with some Razen. Then he seems wide-awake, and deadly. With blood red wings. Fudge-twelve, who's name fits her chocolatey colored skin, and hair. Her eyes are hot pink, with light pink wings. She never stops talking, but then, isn't that why we love her? Danny who has lightning yellow eyes, and yellow wings. He's blind, and fifteen too, with yellow blonde hair.. He can be the funniest person you know, and the craziest lunatic you will ever meet. Anita who's seven and has eyes that are only a shade white darker than the whites of her eyes, with pure white wings. Her hair is white, and she can read minds. Never get in a fight with her-she'll always win. Oh, and there's me, Silver. Quite a strange name since my wings are pitch black, as are my eyes, and fifteen years old.

Why all the colors you ask? Why can't we just have normal colored eyes without the wings? Because we were made in a lab that we like to call The Institution. We were made 2% bird, 97% human, and 1% chameleon. You heard it here folks, chameleon. I now some of you have probably heard of those bird kids who got lucky with only being part bird. At least their eyes don't give them away as anything more than human. At least they don't randomly blend in with their background, going all but invisible when embarrassed or upset. (That's something we've had to work hard on at getting controlled.) You know about Erasers, the lupine-human hybrids. But you don't know about the Razen, the snake-human hybrids. Or us, the bird-human-chameleon crossovers. And you don't know what happened to us. While those bird kids have become famous, I think you need to hear our story too. Believe me, it's important. You see the bird kids part of the story, but we're something else. And we have a story. And I'll tell you about it, because this is behind the scenes, the things the bird kids don't know about, what you don't know about until now.

Jeb broke us out too, he put us in Nebraska, and left us there, me, Bones, and Danny only twelve, Anita only four, Sonny, ten, and Fudge nine. He went to take care of the bird kids we know now. The name 'bird kids' is so disregarding. I'm going to call them Max's flock. We were left alone. When he came back, only two years ago, nobody wanted to speak to him. Then he went to the School, forgetting about his job at the Institution, his job to us, and focused on Max's flock. But he had help. He had a friend named Jacob, and Jacob didn't forget about us. Of course, six months ago he left and never came back. Where is he? Heck if I know, but it hasn't been easy.

This is our story, this is something you don't know, a whole world even stranger than the one Max has showed you. I'm Silver, and my crew are something other. But still important to the twisted place you know of as the School, who works closely with The Institution. Nobody knows about us. Not you, not Max, not even some people who work at the School and The Institution. Until now.

Keep breathing,

Silver