Your curiosity gets the better of you.

Ah, what the heck, you think, rolling the left sleeve of your flannel pajamas up. You slip your arm into the armband, and pull it up almost to your shoulder, where the elastic keeps it snug against your skin. The largest segment of the armband faces forward, and the entire thing feels slightly cool against your skin. But other than that, nothing seems to happen. You're just a thin, myopic teenager wearing a funny-looking metallic armband.

And then the large segment starts to glow.

You gaze in fascination at the thing. It's not that the whole segment is glowing; rather, there's a red dot that's softly glowing right in the center of the large metallic segment. You're not even sure how it's doing that -- the segment appears to be completely opaque and seamless, with no holes or transparent areas that look like they could pass light through -- and yet, you can't deny what you're looking at. The color is soothing, a deep, striking crimson, but it doesn't pulse, or flash, or really do much of anything. It just glows.

Well, if nothing else, at least you got an interesting trinket out of this whole experience. You roll the sleeve of your pajamas down, and find that the light isn't strong enough to be visible through the fabric, and the shirt is loose enough that the armband itself isn't evident underneath it. And yet, somehow, you feel more relaxed just knowing the light is there, even if you can't see it.

Right then, your stomach grumbles. Time to head to the kitchen for breakfast.