When a girl named Rakka emerges from a cocoon with a pail of angel-like wings and no memory she finds herself initially disoriented. Soon she learns that she has just become a Haibane an angelic being and resides in a mysterious walled city. In these episodes Rakka comes to understand the connection she has with the baffling birds and seeks to touch the walls that hide the city. However she takes ill and Reki helps her to get better. While nursing Rakka Reki seeks out the Communicator and learns that she has little time left as a Haibane.