"Can I look at your wings!" is her go to for at least the first three randomly selected angels.

(She installed a quantum true randomness generator in her head a while ago so they are actually really randomly selected. It'd probably be bad if she weren't an amalien and immune to getting cancer from the small amount of radioactive material she put in her skull for this purpose.)

That gets a "no, that's rude" and "why??" and a "okay but don't touch".

"Oh, maybe I should figure out what's rude sometime but I have lots of other things to figure out first."

"Cause I want to make some for me!"

"Okay! Can I scan them with this?" she asks, pulling out her custom scanner.

"...you know what, no, never mind, forget about it."

"Aww. Why?"

"Forget about it." He leaves.

Hm. This feels like a people problem. Luckily, she's got an assistant who helps her with that sorta thing.

An hour later, Vira's assistant, an unusually small amalien named Mona, finds Isabella.

"Hi, um. I'm Vira's assistant Mona and I heard that she wanted to scan people's wings and I think she might have been fright-ening people?"

"I was pretty sure that she wasn't going to without permission, but yes."

"Yeah she isn't going to do it without permission, she knows that. She's just very bad at comm-unicating that sorta thing now."

"Mm-hm."

"Um. Do you know of any not scary way she could find someone who might be okay with her scanning their wings? It's okay if you don't."

"I don't think there's a way to make opening people's wings up not scary!"

"Oh she doesn't intend to open anyone's wings up? The scanner works from the outside, she won't need to touch the person at all."

"She didn't specify."

"Oh, I'm sorry. She can be scary for other people without meaning to be."

"I'm glad to hear it wasn't intentional."

"Do you think there's anything she could do that would work better?"

"Maybe I could think of something if I really understood what she wanted and why."

"She wants to take pictures of wings with her special cameras that also take pictures of the inside of things."

"I think she wants it cause...  under-standing how angel wings work might help figure out how to give other people wings or make a lot of people stronger which could be really good for making life better on some planets or maybe for making new things that are rel-ated to the underylying prin-ciples. We've already figured out a lot of how Samarian disease res-istance works and some Amaliens are work-ing on figurin' out if that can be used to save a lot of people's lives by making babies healthier."

"Also I think she wants to give herself wings."

"I think the special camera explanation would probably work fine. Maybe demonstrating on something that isn't a person."

Mona goes to try that, and also to try being less scary than Vira tends to be.

With this strategy they can find a teenage angel who is willing to be scanned with the device.

She's gonna have wings!! After she figures out how to get extra parts to stick to amaliens, which might take a while but she already has plans for what to do once she does and it's so exciting!

Oh also can she see Jovah's weapons fire into space?

"Well, I can't sing in space, so not trivially."