His augmented senses could pick up on the multitude of physiological clues her body gave off. His inexperience however, made interpreting those clues very difficult. There were urban legends of Augs who, though a combination of intelligence and sensority acuity could so expertly read a person's physiological clues that it bordered on Telepathy, or at least Empathy. Zay was many, many years from being able to do something like that. It took experience, and time.<br/><br/><em>"Well...it seems like you no longer have an advantage over me.  In fact the more knowledge I have of you the more power I hold.  Thank you." </em><br/><br/>He tilted his head, finding that a curious sentiment...yet there was a certain truth to it. "You are welcome. I trust you'll not abuse that power. " Power and Trust. The two went hand in hand, did they not? The Admiral had power, but clearly none of Lena's trust. He realized however, that by granting Lena a little power over him, he had gained a comparable amount of her trust. This was a social lesson he would make sure to reference in the future.<br/><br/><em>"Since we have some time before the meeting...would you mind if I asked you about all the augmentations that have been made to your body?"</em>He saw no reason to hide this knowledge. He wasn't military anymore, and besides it really wasn't that hard to learn these things anyway.<br/><br/>"As you know, Baseline humans are...compared to most other races in the Galaxy unremarkable. We can not control weather, or communicate with animals...the exceedingly rare humans born with psychic abilities can not develope those abilities beyond the crudest levels without extensive genetic and technological manipulation that doesn't always yeild results.  As we began encountering more and more...for lack of a better word...superhuman species, we decided we needed a way to balance the scales. While geneticly modifying a psychic is exceedingly difficult due to us not yet fully understanding which aspects of the brain are responsible for psychic phenomena and to what extent, our geneticists soon discovered that augmenting our most basic and primal human characteristics was comparatively easy. As it turns out our species has a genome that's much more receptive to Genetic modification than most. As an Augment, my strength, speed, resilience, stamina, sensory acuity, regenerative ability, and intellect are many times that of a baseline Human. I am also expected to have a lifespan that could potentially be measured in centuries, barring a death in combat. I say potentially, because to date no Augment has lived for longer than forty years before being killed in combat. We are always sent into the most deadly possible scenarios. We survive many of them, but sooner or later one gets us."