"Well I was born in a transport bound for Manhatten, but my dear mother went into labour early, so technically I was born in Colorado" she sighed as she remembered her childhood, "My foster parents were my uncle and aunt, real nasty couple, always pushing me down"
She paused to sip her milkshake, then continued.
"I ran away sometime around my eighteenth birthday, sneaking on board a transport headed for New London, and that was my new home for the next few years"
She lifted her cuffed hands and pulled the hairclip from her mane, before shuffling her hair and slipping it back into place.
"I survived in the violent underworld for quite a few years, learning to live with almost nothing... But eventually, a gang or two caught up to me, and I was pretty much forced to call my granddaddy. He was in the Niobium business, so he could afford to get me off planet, and into a ship"