Sam made her way back through the labyrinthine corridors to the assembly hall. She glimpsed a young man with tussled brown hair. He looked up and smiled in her direction when he spotted her walking towards him.
“You wouldn't be miss Holden would by any chance?”
“Yeppers, and you are?”
“Ah yes! My name is Carmichael, Luke Carmichael. Techno Magi. I helped put together the bracelet, it's quite a thing I assure you. I thought for a moment I wouldn't be able to finish the job! You disappeared with out a trace.”
“Sorry did I mess up your “tag the pupils so they can't escape” plan did I?”
the man's smile wavered slightly. “Erm...”
Sam stuck out her arm. “C'mon guy. The bracelet? It's a phone! It's a tablet! It's a pass card it's a tracking device.” the man blanched.
“Actually it's a fair bit more than that, even your phone tracks you. this is connected specifically to you. If someone were to take it from you though it would have nothing in it and it would be completely dead. It gets it power directly from your body. It's also linked to your magical aura and will help you focus your magic. In time you shouldn't need to use the screen at all as the longer you wear it, the more it will become intrinsically link to you.”
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Luke looked at her anxiously.
Sam sighed and put out her arm. The young man smiled and clipped what looked like an slim, shiny, black onyx bracelet covered with runes on her left wrist. It was no more than a couple of centimetres wide and about 2mm thick. She looked down at it as the man pulled away, it fit perfectly. she felt a tingling sensation run up her arm and her hand went numb.
“There might be a vague tingling sensation for the initial set up, but that should only last a second.” He assured her.
“And the numb hand?” She could still feel the tingling. The man blanched. “Numb? Miss?” Sam nodded. “ I can still feel the tingling sensation and let me tell you it ain't vague. And my left hand is totally numb, I can't feel a thing.”
“Ah” the man nodded. “Well I guess if there was going to be an anomaly it would be with you...” He looked pensive and then tapped his own bracelet and a small flat holographic screen about 12cm's by 10cm's blinked into view. Sam saw the screen appeared to be filled with technical data with what looked like a download chart running along the bottom and it's colour had gone from green to amber as she watched it progress. The man tapped on the screen with his right hand was furiously changing the settings on the screen. The amber light was progressing rapidly towards Red, she felt the tingle turn into an electric spike running up her arm and her numb hand began to ache. “That's not helping!” She hissed. “In fact it just got way worse.”
The man nodded and put his right hand up gesturing for her to hold.
“Almost there!” Sam could see the anxious look on the guys face as he focused on the screen. Then the screen blinked. “Download complete” and Sam's hand and arm instantly returned to normal.