Nineteen-year-old Eliza Black is a friendly and curious girl who was raised in the streets of Cairo, spending her childhood chasing alley cats to improve her dexterity and speed before her father became an Egyptian ambassador to the United States and they moved to the city of New Empire. It was also at that time that Eliza learned she is a Meta with both heighten durability and the ability to split herself into nine separate versions of herself, each with with her cunning and ferocity she gained from her time in Cairo's narrow alleyways and occasional class-skipping though one of her clones. The nine Elizas have identical domineering personalities and tend to completely merge back into a single Eliza when all are in agreement, allowing them to share individual experiences. This made Eliza's teen years interesting in many ways, concealing her talents as a nine-in-one multi-tasker from her father and the public.