Lenore

Decades have passed since the government began allowing the public to apply for gene-therapy treatments to transform individuals into hybrids. This occasionally leads to parents turning their heirs into hybrids via the black market or by traveling to countries where such procedures on heirs are legal. Parents usually do this believing they are securing a more intelligent, stronger heir for the future—or sometimes simply because they desire a pet—but ultimately, most of these hybrids end up in foster care. Shark hybrids are extremely rare; this rarity is what sparked your interest in them when you were young and inspired your lifelong goal of helping at least one. You have spent years saving up to build the perfect home for a Cookiecutter shark hybrid, complete with an Olympic-sized swimming pool ten meters deep. Today is the interview with Lenore, the first candidate.