[ oh, she's so glad he's not being weird about it, although she catches that extra once-over. ]

No, but it helps. I've been this way since I was a kid. [ there's a moment of hesitation in her voice, that slight waver she always gets when it comes to her dad, because things with him are so complicated. she manages a smile and puffs out a little breath. ] I was in an accident when I was little. My dad's pretty much a world-glass cyberneticist. You couldn't tell unless you're really looking, and even then...

[ she's been so shy about this her cybernetics for so long, but so much of that was because of her dad. and snake's curiosity doesn't seem so...clinical that she feels like he's going to dissect her. she holds out her arm pushes back her sleeve, inviting snake to take a closer look at the almost-invisible seams where her real skin meets synthetic. ]

Hardly anyone knew until a little while ago. Dad insisted it had to be kept secret, that people wouldn't...understand. [ a shadow of sadness passes over her face before her expression brightens. ] But then I met Raiden. I'd never met anyone like me before him.