It was just filled with words that were in an endless paragraph. I leaned down and took the mouse from her, quickly scanning through the 35 pages she had copied down. All the information was good, but this would make sorting information a problem. I could fix it all myself, but that defeated the point, so before I explained how to fix it, I went over to check on Kyla while Kilna sat down at her computer, looking like a kid in a candy store.
Walking over to Kyla's computer, I didn't really hold much hope that hers would be any better, but she did look proud as I walked over. I stood behind her, scanned over the page, and nodded, motioning for her to scroll down. As she did, I looked over everything, a smile creeping onto my face.
"Very good. Do you think that you can teach this to Fawna and Kilna?" I asked after patting her head, and she nodded.
"Yes. Since you weren't specific about how we were to do things, I took some time to try out all the buttons to see what they would do. Once I had figured everything out, I started to input the documents," Kyla explained, and then she looked up at me. "Why do you pat our heads when we do a good job? It is almost like you treat us like your pets."
I stood up and nodded. "Something like that, but it is more because I am not one to express emotions. For now, I don't really have anything to offer you all when you do good, and we don't have positions or ranks yet, but you are all doing good work. I can stop that if you want?" asked, but both girls shook their heads. Kilna stuck up her hand, but Fawna spoke up.
"Yes, we are all included in this. Also, you seem to know where everyone is, and that is because of your metal bugs, right?" She asked, turning back to me as Kilni sighed and then grabbed one of the papers from the stack on her desk.
"Yes. I think I know where you are going with this," I said, and Fawna nodded.
"Yes, you do, but how long till we will be able to track everyone on the Glowing Memory Box?" she asked, and I chuckled.
"By this evening... Do you think about predictive tracking? If I can get dots on the screen, you can predict where they will go, right?" I asked, walking over and putting my hand on the computer tower.
"I think so. I can predict what I am going to write, seeing it on the screen before it happens," Fawna explained, and I nodded, connecting to a bug I had on Miles.
"Miles, bring me a detailed map of the city and any others that you have," I said, and I heard the man fall out of his chair.
"Huh?! Where are you?!" Miles asked as I could see him looking around his office where he had been drinking and not doing anything else. I had bugged every room, so I knew if I took a shit.
"In my office. I should have asked for these before this, so bring me the best one you have for now, and then work on collecting the rest. It is only 2pm, so I had better not catch you with that bottle again before 5pm, got it?" I growled, and Miles yipped as he started to rummage around his office. I knew he was drinking, but the man was on edge, and he wasn't thinking.
From what I could tell, he was a hard man typically that ran a pretty tight ship, but I had come and put the fear in him. This was usually productive to keep a person loyal, but I scared the man more than I had meant to. I was going to have to figure out how to get him back to his serious self, or I was going to run into trouble with him. If things kept declining with him, he could end up turning on me to get his business back.
"What are you going to do with the map?" Fawna asked and then pointed at the keyboard. "This can't make a map, I don't think, and I don't know what scanning means."
I shook my head with a grin as I made some upgrades to the computer. This was something that I could do without slowing time down, but it took time to let the nanobots do the work. This only worked on things that I had made from transformations, but it was helpful for upgrades.
"Scanning is where I use a light to go over things, and then it will create an image on the computer screen," I said, and Fawna nodded slowly, but my attention was caught by Kilna, who was using the magic of some sort on one of the documents.
I turned to her as Fawna and Rax gasped at the screen that was shifting into a model that would handle the resolution for a detailed map. It was like going from 95 to XP, but the leap would be lost soon on the girls since they barely had time to get used to the first model. I still wasn't sure what to do with my powers with computers since they were never something used as more than tools to organize things. I had people that hacked and would provide surveillance, but with these bugs, and my body, I was already leaps and bounds past my old-world capabilities.
Still, even with all of this, this world's magic is what truly fascinated me, and watching Kilna write the symbols in the air with a blue light on the tip of her finger transfixed me. I recorded the action and studied how the symbols fell to the page and then absorbed into a red glowing coating on the page. Slowly, the red glow started to dissolve until there was nothing left, and the page that had looked scribbled on pulled all the lines into letters... like magic...