Sam smiled to herself as she walked back to her cabin. At first she had been lost, but a quick order for her HUD to guide her back and she just followed the little green arrows pointing her towards home. Wow This could be real helpful. she gasped as she looked up when she passed a man she hadn't seen before and a green square icon floated above him with the information above it.
“LOGAN SMITH 5TH YEAR STUDENT*”
She blinked at the asterisk and details of his place of berth, where he lived, what his age was, who was in his family, whether they were Magi, what his grades were! The details seemed endless. And private.
Wow Luke wasn't wrong she had better be careful. Too much info was a bad thing.
As Sam walked back into her cabin she stumbled. Her HUD instantly identified all three people in the main area. they looked up. Edward and Paul had a pained look on their faces and Rae leapt up with a smile that faltered as she remembered their last conversation.
Sam put her hands up. “OK guys I've just had a long conversation with Porter and er.. well it appears he thinks I need help. Apparently I'm not very good in social settings or personal relationships. Bonding and the like, he says I should try to stick it out. So erm, I guess you guys are stuck with me for a bit.. sorry.”
Rae squealed and clapped her hands. “Your not leaving?” she rushed up and gave Sam a tight hug. “It's for the best. You'll see.” She whispered. As she pulled away Sam saw her eyes glistening, she winced as she looked at the two boys. They were the focus of much of her discontent after all.
“Sorry guys, are you willing to give me another chance?”
Edward smiled and nodded as Paul jumped off his bunk and pulled her into a warm embrace. “Chill Sam there's no damage that needs fixing here. We're all good and I for one am glad you decided to stay. You wouldn't believe how moody Eddy has been.”
Sam flinched as a pillow bounced off Paul's head as Edward exclaimed. “Dick!” As Paul laughed “Why is it someone's always throwing stuff at me? Jeez.”
Sam smiled. Her heart felt lighter, Porter might be right. Leaving this and living alone? In the end It might come to that but she hoped it didn't.
She looked up at Edward. “So! what do you think about the new bracelets? Are they amazing or what?”
Edward glanced down at his wrist and shrugged. “Er yeah I guess, I've actually not used mine yet.”
Sam looked at Paul who shrugged. Rae looked at her 's as though she had totally forgotten she had it. To them it was just a prettier pass card.
“Oh boy you guys are missing out big time.”
“H.U.D. Can you open up a visual sphere so everyone can see my display?”
She blinked as a metre squared holographic sphere appeared in the middle of the main room and Rae fell back onto her bunk as both Paul and Edward sat bolt upright.
“What the hell?” blurted Paul. “Fuck!” Exclaimed Rae as she sat back up and tried to gather her composure. Edward just looked at it and then at Sam and smiled. “ Huh. look at that. Well pretty girl, you going to keep how you did that a secret?”
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Sam face flushed at Edward's comment and blurted out. “It's my H.U.D. I think everyone can do it, but Luke says I'm the first.” Rae looked at Sam. “Luke? so.. not social heh?” She smiled knowingly.
“What? No! He's the techno Magi who was dishing these thing out at the assembly. Mine almost fried my arm and then when he fixed it the H.U.D. just appeared like er..well magic.”
Edward nodded. “So how do we get it to work?”
“Er.. try thinking “H.U.D.” that works for me.”
Sam saw Rae squinting and a vein pulsed in her forehead. Paul shook his head. “Nope nothing.” she looked at Edward who shrugged his shoulders. Sam bit her lips and closed her eyes.
“H.U.D. Can you give my room mates their H.U.D. Access?” She opened her eyes and saw her order to her H.U.D. blazoned across the sphere in the middle of the main room! “Oops!”
Paul looked at her. “Sam, you think you have that kind of authority?”
Sam flushed. “Luke says when my bracelet malfunctioned I got more access than I should have. He's working out how to limit it at the moment, anyhow it might not even work.”
“Woah. Now that's what I'm talking about!” Exclaimed Paul.
Rae let out a gasp as Edward nodded. “Well that explains the big hoo-ha they made about these things I wonder why they never told us the bracelets could do this?”
Sam ordered her H.U.D. to close. “Er.. I think they thought it would take weeks to “Integrate the hardware with the wetware.”
Paul snorted. “That sounds like Luke talk!”
Sam smiled. “Yeah the guy's a bit of a nerd.”
“Just be careful guys, I'm not sure what access you have got. Try not to get too nosey OK?”
Edward nodded. “I don't know about you, but mine already seems a little limited. It doesn't have the asterisk next to all your names like Sam's did although I'm glad to see you're all friendlies.”
Rae looked quizzically up at Edward. He patted the side of his head.“I'm guessing green is good red is bad, maybe grey or white is unknown? “
Paul nodded. “Yeah makes sense.”
“According to Luke.” Sam explained. “This will integrate with your magic. So I'm guessing if you have attack magic, like maybe a fire ball? I dunno I'm totally guessing here, but if you did, the H.U.D. could help with strength and direction? Focus? All that sort of thing.”
Edward nodded. “Yeah that seems possible, could be, Well this is definitely an upgrade from the pass card.”
Sam felt a tingle in her right ear then she heard a familiar voice in high fidelity stereo.
“Hello? Sam? Her H.U.D. popped up and she saw the caller I.D. Confirming it was indeed Luke calling her.
“Hey Luke. Wow that's weird, it's like your here in the room.”
“Yeah that's nice. Ah, did you just do something?” Sam noted the stress in his voice,
“Er... maybe? Could you be more specific?”
“Well I don't know. How about switching on your room mates H.U.D. Interfaces Maybe?”
“Oh! Yes that was me. That's good though right?”
“Yeah that's great! Would have been nice if we had got a heads up though, they're data streams just light up like a fucking Christmas tree.”
“ OK Luke chill, no one was hurt. No bombs went off. OK?”
“ Right! Right. so anyhow, you fancy letting us know how you actually did that? it's kinda important.”
“Sure I just asked my H.U.D. to give them access, have you tried that?”
“Actually miss Holden yes. As a matter of fact it was one of the very first things we did.”
“Er..did it work?”
she heard Luke sigh, jeez that was freaky. It sounded like he was right next to her.
“Miss Holden... Sam. Would we be having this conversation if it did?”
“I know where the off button is you know, Keep being a dick and I'll use it.”
“Of course. Right my apologies, But is there any chance you could let us have access? It really would help immensely.”
Sam sighed. “Right hang on.”
“H.U.D. is it possible to give H.U.D. Access to everyone with a H.U.D. Bracelet with immediate effect?”
AUTHORIZATION FOR H.U.D. BRACELET RECIPIENTS TO GAIN ACCESS TO THEIR H.U.D. HAS BEEN GRANTED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.
“OK. Luke, did that work?”
“Wha-? h- how did you do that?”
“Well I dunno. Maybe not being a dick to everyone helps? Maybe you upset the H.U.D.? Maybe it was just magic!?”
“Well how ever you did it you have my most profound thanks. I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of each other in the near future. Good day miss Holden.”