"Chicago, born and raised," she confirms as she sweeps up the last shards - a sliver in her hand would heal itself pretty much instantaneously, but that's another story altogether.

"It's not magic, and it's not genetic. Just eezo - element zero exposure, in utero. Some people, nothing happens. Some people get cancer and don't survive to their second birthday. And a few people end up with biotic potential. With my implants, I can do a pretty impressive charge - close over 50 meters in less than a second, if I need to. But the asari are way more impressive. Comes with having natural eezo deposits on your planet, I guess, and millions of years to adapt to it."