Sometime later, Sharon was starting to wake up while laying on a bed in the nurse's office at the camp.
"Ugh, what happened?" asked Sharon.
"Your braces caused an electric field to appear around you and knocked you out while we were looking at that cable," said Maria, who was the only one in the room. She had been waiting over in a chair beside the bed the entire time.
"Did anyone else get hurt?" asked Sharon.
"No, it only stayed around you," said Maria.
"And luckily the electricity left no marks so everyone thinks you had just drowned while out there, but the camp said you would be fine and didn't call for an ambulance, turns out the nurses here are actual doctors," she said.
"The fact people think I was drowning versus getting shocked and that's a good thing is a little worrying," said Sharon while sitting up.
"Also, there's something strange going on at this camp," she said.
"Other than your braces and the weird food being served?" asked Maria.
"That cable had a label on it, it's from the same company that created my braces," said Sharon.
"Are you sure?" asked a surprised Maria.
"My braces have the same label on them, of course it took a mirror and magnifying glass to find this out but I'm sure," said Sharon before her braces picked up on a radio signal.
"I told you that we should have buried the cables better," said a voice. Both girls recognized it as the voice of the counselor who led their hike.
"It's alright, the braces zapped her to only protect Sharon, they would never harm their host purposely," said a male voice.
"And we don't know that, they could start to malfunction at any point and do so," said the counselor.
"We need to just talk to her and get her to allow us to remove them," she said.
"That puts the organization in danger, we'll wait for now," said the man.
"Is that understood, Suzan?" he asked.
"Yes, sir," said the counselor before the signal cut out.
"Wait, has this whole camp just been set up so they can take your braces back?" asked Maria.
"We're going to find out," said Sharon as she stood up.
