Sang Sorenson

Sang Sorenson is the central character of the books in The Ghost Bird series.

The story follows her life after it dramatically changes when she moves from Illinois to Sunnyvale Court near Charleston in South Carolina. She meets Dakota (Kota) Lee whilst sneaking out of her house at night. Kota introduces her to the rest of the his 'team'.

The boys bring her into their family, feeling protective towards her. All Sang knows is that they are part of 'The Academy', the secretive private school the boys went to before coming to Ashley Waters High. As Sang discovers more about the boy's secretive lives she gets pulled deeper and deeper into the dangers and complications of Academy life.

Appearance
Gabriel describes Sang's soft dark blonde hair as 'chameleon', as it contains multiple shades of blonde and even some red, and changes color depending on the lightundefined. Sang prefers to wear it twisted up in a clip behind her head, but Gabriel prefers it down and steals her clips.

She has fair skin and expressive light green eyesundefined with a small nose. She is slender yet still curvy enough to also be beautiful.

Gabriel's signature scent for Sang is a soft musk with a fruit and sweet undertone.undefined

Biography
Sang was born on October 6, and named after her father's mother, Sangrida Sorenson, but it was shortened to Sang by Mrs Sorenson. Sangrida Sorenson died when Sang was 8 years oldundefined. Sangrida is an Old Norse name and means: a Valkyrieundefined

In elementary school, in gym class, Sang was taught to fall safely from a tall distanceundefined.

In third grade, a boy made her go with him into the coat closet at school, and then tried to kiss her. Sang pushed him awayundefined.

When she was 8, Mr Sorenson bought bicycles for both Sang and Marie from an neighbor who was moving. Sang's was grey, Marie's was white. They stopped being used as Mrs Sorenson started isolating both Sang and Marie. They weren't allowed to ride on the street, and the bicycles weren't suitable for off-roadundefined.

Sang learned to swim before her mother became sick. In 7th grade, she swam in the pool at her school. In Illinois, her stepmother had eventually relented to allow solitary walks outside as the nearest neighbor there was a couple of miles awayundefined.

Sang has had nightmares most nights since she was 9 or 10 years oldundefined, but has taught herself not to cry out so as not to wake family members. She knows no-one will come if she screams.

Sang has a small brown diary/journal, in which she writes in English - but using modified Korean lettering as a codeundefined. It mostly consists of a record of her dreams/nightmares, from which she has tried to discern patterns, but is now mostly habitual as a way to occupy her time at homeundefined.

When Sang is 15 years old, she and her family move to Sunnyvale Court near Charleston, South Carolina from a tiny town in Illinois, in late July/early August. When they meet, Nathan mentions the tree was brought down in a bad storm the previous week, before Sang moved inundefined, however Kota knows they moved in a few weeks earlierundefined. Her parents chose Sunnyvale Court because it was the least crowded street within an hour's drive of where her father worksundefined.

Sang has trouble understanding how to interact normally with other people as she was severely socially isolated for many years. Mrs Sorenson permitted no social interaction other than school attendance. Sang does not even know her own home telephone numberundefined. Her family members have little to no physical contact with each other - they do not hug or offer comfort. If she cries, she is told to go to her room until she gets over herselfundefined.

Sang's experience is of relationships and intimacy is extremely limited for her age. Her only knowledge of male anatomy is from encyclopedia picturesundefined. Mrs Sorenson did not permit her to attend sex-ed classes at schoolundefined.

Sang has taught herself to cook simple mealsundefined

Sang has taught herself the alphabet in sign language.

Mr Sorenson used to bring home old desk sets, including clocks. As they didn't have a lot of toys when growing up, Sang would open up the clocks and play with themundefined.

After years of wandering around in the woods, Sang has developed an innate sense of direction and can accurately point to compass directions in the darkundefined

Sang likes to read, including psychological thrillers, mysteries, fantasy, and British classicsundefined.

She enjoys watching World Series baseball on TV, and says her grandfather used to watch every game, but has never been to a live matchundefined.

Trivia

 * Her favorite color is pinkundefined.
 * Her favorite Grimm's fairy tale is 'The Princess in Disguise'undefined.
 * Her favorite flower is the 'Chrysler Imperial' roseundefined.
 * One of her favorite tracks is 'Mysterious' by Yuko Ohigashi.
 * Sang has never been able to whistleundefined
 * knows the alphabet in sign language and korean letters
 * she is learning Japanese and how to play the violin

Sang's iPhones

 * 1) Bought by Victor the week before schoolundefined; dropped during Friday Fall incident, screen smashedundefined
 * 2) Replacement dropped in the tub during shower incident, screen cracked and waterloggedundefined.
 * 3) The next one is given to Mr Blackbourneundefined before Victor gives it to Sangundefined. This one also has an app to access cameras in the Sorenson houseundefined. Cracked in gym shower roomundefined, lost in pile of sawdustundefined
 * 4) At school, Sang has another phoneundefined. Victor gets her a replacement as the calls and messages on this one are being interceptedundefined.
 * 5) New phone bought by Victorundefined, screen shattered by Jadeundefined
 * 6) Another new iPhoneundefined, stolen at homecoming game and substituted with blank phoneundefined
 * 7) Sang has a new phone on her way to the children in the abandoned storeundefined; she drops it after leaving Gabriel's home, cracking the screenundefined.
 * 8) [Missed at least one or possibly two in here from Healing Power of Sugar, I'll double check details and add later]
 * 9) New phone has unique heart sticker on inside of coverundefined