"I couldn't really tell you," Shepard says, slightly taken aback by a question seemingly out of left field. "Except when Dad was stationed at Arcturus, I've never lived anywhere big enough for anything like that to perform."

Not that she knows what circuses were like on Earth in 20-whatever either, to be honest, but she has some vague ideas that have percolated through from what pop culture of the time she is familiar with. "The animal welfare laws are probably a lot stronger, if only so we don't look bad in front of the asari."