She is from Saggitaron, growing up in a single parent household in the Tawa slums. Her mother had at one point been a small-time healer who prepared herbal remedies and natural medicines, but had then turned to supplying 'soft drugs' to soldiers stationed in the Capital; be they local or foreign 'peacekeepers' from Leonis and Virgon. Zara can't remember her 'home' exactly because she was kept at a 'cafe' on the edge of her poor neighbourhood, where she'd clean dishes and serve out 'pot-luck' food to customers while her mother dealed out other things.