Unable to find a certain pair of his socks, Danny went into his sisters' room -- Kate and Lili of course shared a small bedroom while he, as the male, got a much larger one all to himself -- to see if they'd screwed up yet again while doing the laundry. However, he forgot about the socks when he saw something very interesting sitting on the sparse desk that hadn't gotten much use since Lili graduated from girls' school at age 14.
A remote control? Danny thought. What are they doing with this? technology isn't for girls! He was further confused by the LCD display that read "MindLink Active/User: Lilianne Muller." He tried pressing a few of the buttons with the strange symbols next to them, but nothing seemed to happen.
Just as he turned the remote over to see if there would be some sort of label on the bottom to clue him in, he felt suddenly disoriented.
He blinked and looked around. What was he doing in his sister Lili's room? It just reminded him of how it was unfair that his sisters had bigger bedrooms than him, just because they were older.
Confused by the device in his hand, he turned it over to see that it looked like some kind of universal remote, and the LCD screen read "Chronivac 5.0b Initializing..." He puzzled over that only briefly, as the display changed to read "Initial Setup/Activate MindLink to user?"
That sounded weird, and he selected "no" by pressing the appropriate button.
The screen changed to read "Setup Complete/No User Lock Set." He shrugged and pressed a couple of buttons to see if the LCD display would change again. It did, to read "DD/Asian/5ft6." He pressed the bottom half of a rocker switch and it went to "DD/Asian/5ft5." Then again, "DD/Asian/5ft4." He held it down until it read "DD/Asian/4ft8," lifted his thumb --
"What are you doing in my room?" came the voice from behind him.
Startled, he whirled around to face Lili, remote in his hand, his thumb inadvertently mashing a button he hadn't previously pressed.