...and within three years it was weaponized, and hundreds of thousands died...
Sorry.
Anyway, I like this piece, and as others have mentioned, there is a ton of great imagery here, and that nice, almost cinematic moment at the end when she bursts through the clouds.
There are a number of typos, which I did not jot down. I remember one where Song was stronger than "he" looked, and there was at least one instance of a quotation mark ending a paragraph in which there was no dialog. Also, this line I did copy: "and Song was sure the city's air wasn't doing him any fathers."
But typos aside, this was a good read. Yea from me.