"Roll up your shirt sleeves and expose your bracelets, Miss O’Malley. I will explain which of the tiny buttons are used in each circumstance. However, if you press them now, you will run the risk of disrupting my current orbit and revealing the spaceship to the people of your planet," said Butler One.

It was lunch time.

"I will just take some notes to help me to memorise them, Butler One."

"First you unfold the door of the strip panel on your left bracelet. It is the one next to the panel which unfolds as your antigravity triangle for your left arm."

"Found it," said Ann, "Let's see if I can control Wildstar's moves with these tiny buttons."

"I might as well call it Wildstar," said Ann, "because I think that the spaceship should have a good name."

"Agreed, Miss O’Malley. I shall adopt your terminology. Now look closely at the control panel for Wildstar on your bracelet."

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When Ann returned to her classroom after lunch, she sat down and quickly scribbled down notes about everything she had learned. The piece of paper would make no sense to anyone who found it, for she had written it in a form of shorthand that only she could understand. However, it would summarize Butler One's instructions for controlling Wildstar.

"I wonder if it can override his controls," thought Ann, "It doesn't matter anyway, because he has now been programmed with complete loyalty to me."

Ann then turned her attention to her schoolwork, feeling pleased that it was mathematics class, rather than English. Ann's English teacher would have demanded to see the sheet of paper and probably read its contents out aloud in order to embarrass her. Some teachers would employ this method as a means of discouraging their students from writing irrelevant material during class times.

Ann would not be able to use any of her special gadgets without incurring more trouble. It was wiser to avoid drawing any attention to herself. She thought of some of the gadgets which had already been concealed within her uniform. Her favourite was the collection of exolimb boosters. These were thin skeletal outlines of her arms and legs, which were made of a thin alien metal. The metal parts were so thin, that the skeleton parts could be worn concealed by her clothes. However, they had flexible joints at the knees and elbows, and there were even some attachments for her hands and feet, which she could wear under her gloves and boots.

The exolimbs gave Ann special strengths, because she would only have to make normal bodily movements, and the exolimbs would absorb the strain of lifting, pushing or assaulting various objects of considerable weight and density. These could be used secretly, and would make her someone physically greater than the equal of any male or female opponent. There was another benefit of the exolimbs. They could be removed.

"If I take them off, then anybody who saw me performing my feats of special strength when I was wearing them, could have my arms, hands, feet and legs examined by a doctor and not see anything out of the ordinairy, just a young girl who does not mind at all. He would be locked away in a padded cell for claiming that I could do such things," thought Ann.

She hastily worked her way through several exercises involving the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of negative numbers.