Elaine has grown up on MOSA. Her parents, Muriel and Emile, are both
doctors there. When we meet her, she is a navigator on board the ARSI
recovery vehicle, Minotaur. Her fingers are tattooed on the back with
“nav tattoos” readable by the computer as her fingers dance over her
control panel.

In Book Two, she is shot by Xanthus Rex on Mauritius and Max rescues
her by donating some of his prosthetic skin, thus imbuing her with the
same powers, including contact telepathy and the ability to teleport.