Yukari was about to mention something about the ribbon, which she had tied to her wrist. About how the fibers aren't just plain satin or cloth; she could not remember what the fibers were, but they were treated with a combination of an animal oil, which she could not remember, and tree pitch, which she could not remember.
She was forgetting quite a bit, she thought with a quiet laugh to herself.
Then, her brain's higher functions shut down again. All remaining energy, of which there had been little left, went into getting up and walking out the door, just as Kotori pointed her out.
By the time Tom actually turned to look, she wasn't there anymore. Instead she was starting to look through each and every locker, to see if there was energy in any of them she could use.
She managed to open two before her operating system decided she had better stop moving her arms and use her legs to go out the door. That did not work very well. Yukari's klutzy nature and her lack of object recognition sent her tumbling over a bench and into the tatami mats with a hard thud.
As her arms were shut down, and her position on the ground was difficult, her operating system concluded the unit needed to return to stasis. It did so, and the optical sensors' covers slowly closed. Aural sensors remained online; all others were closed off.
There was little that could be done, however, when those sensors detected the heavy footsteps of a very, very large presence. Echolocation determined it was practically 2 meters tall. It wrapped something around the unit's frame, according to the aural sensors, then picked it up swiftly. It opened the unit's food processing orfice and inserted something. Gyroscopic elements were turned off to conserve energy, but by the movement of the air, the unit's operating system felt the unit turned so it was as if it was standing straight up.
The food processing element registered energy inside of it. Instantly it began to do its job, while more energy was introduced to it.
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The dark, jumpsuit-clad frame of Sigurd stepped out into the bathhouse, cradling Yukari like a small child. He had a bottle of red fruit juice in his hand, and he was feeding the juice to her. The parts of her body that he could not hold dangled freely.
"My apologies, Taisa, Freeman-Juni. Miharu alerted me to the Shosa's status, leading me to this position. Her higher functions should return within a few minutes. Please continue with your conversation."
