A World of Echoes

n a future where technology has taken giant leaps, the life of ordinary people has changed in numerous ways. Watches implanted in the arm to monitor their vital signs, appliances activated by voice commands, buses teleporting, and various physical enhancement devices. One of these - probably the riskiest - provides a young blind boy with the ability to enhance his senses, allowing him to -see- His sister, somehow and through what connections, managed to have him implanted with this device, at a price unknown to her little brother. Today, just a few days after the procedure, it is finally time to prepare to return to school.