Niki bought some time by taking a long drink from her beer before facing Ethan.
"In my world there are people with abilities," she started. "Powers I guess. I have superstrength." She smirked faintly before picking up the metal ash tray on the bar and easily crushing it in one hand. "Matt Parkman was a telepath and a cop. Some of us, not so much me but the people I was with, tried to make things... better. There was this explosion see, wiped out most of New York, killed a lot of people. Caused by a Special who lost control. People panicked. Those like me were rounded up, locked up like animals. Experimented on for being.. different." Her expression became slightly haunted as she remembered the months she spent locked up in that cell, the tests, the torture. "Parkman... turned against us. Worked with the administration to brig us in, interrogate us. If we didn't spill the answers he took them by force from our minds, executed many in cold blood."
She shook herself slightly before smiling weakly.
"The explosion changed a lot of people."
She half shrugged before looking back at him.
"It's hard to explain what they do. I guess they specialize in dealing with the more unusual aspects of LA."