508 Shopping Spree

Eventually, they did get them to a storage bay so that Nico could begin the demonstrations, including fitting them all with individual suits of augmentic armor, "a small signing incentive," as she put it, and theirs to keep.

Just like Max did when they were first testing it, the Canis team punched an armor plate with the augments off and then again with them enabled.

"Oh, this is good. But can we fix the helmet? It's crushing my ears." Rill complained.

"Sorry, they were made for my style of ears. Hand me the helmets for a second, and I will reconfigure them all."

Nico made a pair of raised ridges on top so that the ears would be mostly flat to the head but not squished by the helmet and relocated the earbuds so that they would still be able to hear properly.

"How is that?"

"Perfect. And I can hear properly too. Are there speakers inside the helmet?" Rill asked.