It's instinctive, after spending more years of his life with an L2 than without it -- Kaidan calls up the mnemonic for a barrier field as an answer, with a crooked smile on his lips. That he then proceeds to do absolutely nothing at all results in a moment's pause before he sighs, rubs the amp port again, and requests "Pretend I just did something really interesting there," with the smile shading wry.

"But pretty fine, if we're talking me, personally," he resumes, hand dropping to his side. "In terms of tech, you can go even finer -- our comm specialist has a toothbrush with a micro-sized eezo core, which apparently uses alternating mass effect fields to break up plaque well enough to be worth spending six thousand credits on it. I, uh... well, it's her money. And it did let us take back the ship from hijackers, once."