[She had been drawing a bit closer to him, almsot closer to a hug, but his question makes her stop, and retreat. That's the only sign that she's uncomfortable with his question, because her smile doesn't budge.]
We're born normally. The enhancement process takes place on a cellular level at conception, and then we are nurtured inside our mothers just the same as a Natural human. ...Though the ultimate goal of creating Coordinators was to use an artificial womb to eliminate all environmental variables, only one child was born that way.
[Her tone softens a bit, and Lacus idly removes a hand from around Lockon's shoulders to glide it over the water's surface.] My mother was killed when I was an infant. My father raised me until he was killed two years ago.