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Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:23 pm**

"Doctor McCoy, this is Tereza. I'm in Miss Minamida's office. We were talking, then she just stopped mid-sentence and now she's not responding. She doesn't have a pulse or anything. You should probably get up here." She sounded slightly panicked.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:35 pm**

"That's... concerning, but perhaps not in the way you assume. Was there any disruption in electronic devices around you as this happened?"

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:38 pm**

"Not... that I'm aware of," she says, pulling out her phone and looking at it. "No, my phone seems fine."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:45 pm**

"...odd, she usually gets perfect reception on campus."

"Miss Rozanov, this may be a bit awkward to explain, but that is only Headmistress Minamida's body."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:48 pm**

"Okay..." She said, "So where's the rest of her? Seems kind of strange to bug out in the middle of a conversation."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:50 pm**

"The rest of her? Well, Miss Rozanov, you're standing on it."

"All of us are, really."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:52 pm**

"I'm not sure I understand, Doctor."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:54 pm**

"In a significant way, she is campus. She's beneath everything. She's even in the walls of some of the older buildings."

"That's why it's damned curious that she's lost contact with her body."

"I'll be over shortly."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:57 pm**

"Okay. Good." This is insane. Or maybe I am?

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:59 pm**

It's a short bit before the good doctor arrives, with a furry blue armful of diagnostic devices.

"I take it there have been no new developments?"

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:14 pm**

"None that I've seen." From the scuff of the carpet, Tereza had been pacing.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:21 pm**

"Alright. You may stay, but I'll need some room," he says as he starts separating out the equipment around the headmistress.

"This is unusual, but it's not outside of the realm of possibility."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:28 pm**

Tereza moved to lean up against the wall next to the door. "So the Headmistress is some sort of... I don't even know what term you'd use."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:30 pm**

"Person. She's a person, same as you or I," he says as he engages the devices.

"There are many who would deny us personhood, Miss Rozanov. I don't see why our definition would need to be so narrow."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:34 pm**

"Apologies, Dr. McCoy. The last stretch of time has been a little stressful."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:39 pm**

Beast would pick up baseline energy readings. The device seems to be idling. No data activity is being registered outside the hardwired systems that are keeping it running at minimal capacity.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:41 pm**

"Like a puppet with its strings cut," he mutters, double-checking his work.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:49 pm**

"Hm?" Apparently Tereza wasn't listening closely.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:50 pm**

"It would appear, as I'd guessed previously, that the Headmistress simply isn't home."

"What is more curious is that she doesn't appear to be even trying to send a signal to this body."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:52 pm**

His analogy is on the nose but fairly accurate. The guidance signal that, for all Beast knows was and always should be directly linked with the mainframe, has been severed somehow.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:11 pm**

"So does she have other bodies or is this the only one?"

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:15 pm**

"Just this."

"You'll have to excuse me for showing her to you in such a... vulgar state," he says as he steps behind Ashlie's chair and starts feeling around at the base of her neck.

"Now where was it? Did I have to press both at once? Let's see..."

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:32 pm**

Ashlie's head produces a faint clicking sound, then hisses as the back of her head opens like a flower, except instead of petals metal panels unfold to reveal the inside.

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:36 pm**

"Alright. Now, if I recall correctly, the switch to initiate the signal beacon was right..."

He uses a small metallic probe to overcome the indelicacy of his large hands, pressing a catch inside Ashlie's head.

"...here."

"Calling Headmistress Minamida, eh?"

Posted: **Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:41 pm**

Some pieces inside her head whir to live and a couple of indicator lights blink on as the robot attempts to resynch with it's guidance signal. Nothing happens for a while, then one of Beast's scanners beeps, indicating that the connection failed to find a guidance signal in the first place.

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2015 12:02 am**

"That's certainly... disconcerting," he murmurs as he presses the catches to fold Ashlie's amazing origami head back together.

"The only reason I can think of right now is that there may be physical damage to the source of the signal," he says while reaching his arms to scoop up Ashlie's body.

"Would you mind accompanying me, Miss Rozanov? There may be trouble."

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2015 12:04 am**

"Of course, Dr. McCoy," she said, pushing off the wall. "Where are we going?"

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2015 12:06 am**

"To a place nobody ought to be able to access," he says as he hefts up Ashlie's body.

"Hence why a little backup isn't out of order."

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2015 12:12 am**

I get to back up Beast!

"Understood, Dr. McCoy."

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2015 12:15 am**

"We'll just have to hope nobody asks awkward questions as to why we're carrying the headmistress to the lighthouse, eh?"

He says with a faint smirk as he carries Ashlie out.

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2015 12:17 am**

"One can hope," she says, her accent creeping back in as she follows him out.

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2015 12:48 am**

Doctor McCoy then hurries on to the Point.

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