Cisco gave her a sympathetic smile. It was probably the understatement of the century to say that she was out of her element and didn't understand. He felt for her, but he wanted to help. There was going to be some disconnect, he knew, between his explanations and her understandings, but he told himself that if he was careful to keep things in layman's terms and answered questions to the best of his ability, hopefully it would be less frightening for her and more wonderment sooner than later.
"That's a projector triggered by a motion sensor of some kind. So...there's a tiny little computer in there that has all of these cool functions I'll show you to use and that little light there, see it?" he asked, pointing to the pin-sized beam of light coming directly from the bracelet, "that's what makes the picture show on your arm. When you flick your wrist like that, the bracelet can tell that you're moving and it turns the light on," he explained. "With me so far? I know it's a lot, Briseis, I'm really sorry. I'll try to make it as easy to understand as possible, and if you have questions as we go, stop me so that you can ask them, okay?"