Giving the government power and money is like giving whiskey and car keys to two teenage boys...bad things can happen. The government has secrets, we all know that. But we don't all know about Project Manticore.
In the early 1990's, the U.S. government decided that they were going to have the best of the best in weaponry. Since all of the other frontiers were taken, they decided upon genetically engineering human weapons- the perfect soldiers.
They spliced the genes of embryos with the genes of animals- cats, cheetahs, sharks- anything to make them better, give them more of an edge. The result? Children with no childhoods, killed for the slightest misdemeanor. Kids that were forced to gun train at the age of six, who fluently spoke 18 languages by the age of thirteen.
They expected them to be perfect, which they were. But Manticore didn't expect their soldiers to think for themselves. Call it ironic, but Manticore's obedient little soldier-children were independent.
And in 2009, twelve of them ran....ran far, far away, ran into the world that wasn't yet ready for them...they ran straight into danger.
There was one who, through it all, kept her innocence. She never once gave up hope that they had lived, that her siblings were okay, even though she heard the foreboding sound of gunfire ringing through the forest. She never gave up on them, nor them on her...
This is her story, her life...