EVA System
Location: A large refugee camp
Time:       early in 2001


A nurse is going to check up on an old man. He had wandered into camp a few days ago with an infected wound in his arm. After he was patched up he was tagged with a bio-mon and told to rest. A few minutes ago his bio-mon showed a jump in heart rate and EMG activity excess for a resting person.

The location display in her HUD shows his tent is just to the right. She's been watching his temp rise .2 degree in just the time she has been walking. As she turns into his tent, she sees two of his family members have found him. He's hugging what appear to be his son and granddaughter with great excitement.

She can't speak the language, so she triggers a voice recorder and patches the audio stream into the local log in case they are saying something useful to intel. She tracks her head mount camera across the other faces and triggers input to the camp ID database. Face recognition shows a 50% on the man and a zero on the girl, and they have no badges, so she logs them as newcomers and tags the time and contact with the old man. She gently separates them from the old man, scrolls through a phrase book in her HUD and tells him to lay down and rest. She then finds a phrase to tell the pair to go to the center camp and get checked over. She flags the database to assign them to this tent after intake processing.

As she leaves the old man's tent an emergency alarm vibrates behind and to the right through her headset. She turns and walks quickly in that direction. Her HUD shows the face of a middle aged man with a possible heart problem. She starts to run as she sees the EKG trace from his bio-mon change from a irregular beat to complete failure. Personal tracking shows that a crash team is in route, but need 4 minutes to get there. She finds him in seconds and provides CPR until the team arrives and the paddles are hot. It takes three shots, but his heart restarts and drugs are given to stabilize him. The database system has noted the use of these drugs dropped the inventory to a re-supply trigger, so an order is uploaded automatically to the depot.

As she is walking back to center camp, she sees a young boy looking lost and crying. Her head mount has a clear pic of his face, but can't give an ID. He's wearing a badge, so she scans it and finds he is 50 M from his home tent and he has a vision problem. A quick check of today's shipments shows some used glasses have arrived from Maryland and she takes him along to center camp to check them out. His vision errors were logged at his intake and she finds glasses close to what he needs. She then guides him to his home tent, following the route in her HUD.

She flips her HUD to overview and watches the dots of light layed on reality as she looks down on camp from the tower mount cam. Most are green, a few yellow, and one red, with the blue markers of a med team around that one. Things are under control.

As she heads over to the mess tent for a snack, (an inventory check showed fresh apples) she downloads some local folk music from a MP3 web site.

Listening for a while, she wonders if she can help these people remember how to dance...