บท 326: You Are Here

Malz almost took her hand away from charging the device.

Almost.

As her tears fell, she forced herself to read the largest icons.

Util... Messaging...

The moment she saw the second word, she tried to touch it, but the same box from before appeared, telling her "network not found".

Apps... Nav...

She tried Apps, but found only unintelligible icons and titles in tiny script. The one icon she could intuit was the swooping arrow in the corner that allowed her to return to the home screen.

Util produced the same effect, but with familiar shapes like gears. It was probably a way to configure the device, but she didn't want to risk putting it into a mode that would render it useless, so she backed out of it.

That left Nav.

As soon as she touched it, a box came up.

INITIATING LOCAL PING...

Ping?