Only after dropping her query did Alicia realize that she couldn't see her HUD. Puzzled, she performed a specific combination of somatic gestures that are used to manually reboot the System (in the event that the host experiences issues with accessing it). It was an unintuitive and tedious process as researchers didn't want hosts to reboot their Systems by accident. Just before she completed the last movement of the procedure, her HUD flickered back online. Yet, she didn't have time to celebrate because she realized that something was amiss.