Aria (aka Songbird)

Aria has hair and eyebrows that are as dark as a raven's, and the genetically created voice of an angel. Aria is thin, and her skin is a mooth contrast against the pink of her lips. Aria is seventeen thousand years old, considered a teenager. Her face is finespun and delicate, and her features are beautiful - genetically engineered perfection. Aria has gray eyes. Anywhere else, she would be seen as a rare beauty, but life in the Pods has long since eliminated the ordinary and plain variety of people. Given the option, parents all chose to have good looking children, and by doing so, they became ordinary. Aria therefore, has no idea that she is the beauty that others see her as,

Aria was also given the voice of a falcon soprano, and her ability to sing stops all in earshot in their tracks. It...