It's okay, Peter, now you have the Resident Fixer-Up of the Milky Way to help you! That's her job description, isn't it? Part of that involves being a good listener, so she lets him ramble his way through his explanation without the slightest hint of impatience. She can, and has, listen to people all day if need be. They aren't on a time-limit here, or at least not a pressing one.

"Glowing thing like this?" Shepard sweeps her hand through the air, and the glowing blue of biotics springs back into visibility. "Biotics. Roughly speaking, it's a manipulated mass of energy."

Roughly speaking. So, so, so roughly speaking.

"I can lift things with it, or push them, make a barrier, or affect gravity in a very small area. What are you thinking?"