Charlie had dozed off after returning to his bath, and awoke with a snort when Genta called. "Huh? Oh yeah, I'm almost done," he replied, and then proceeded to dry himself off...
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Meanwhile, Shirigume is already in one of the rooms reserved for them, sitting down by a short-legged table. She had taken out a small stack of square pieces of paper, and started folding one of them in unusual folds, soon to take a standing shape of a small bird. Once finished, she stood the bird up on her paw pads and gave the origami a gentle blow of her breath. The bird lifted off her paws...and began to flap its wings under its own power, gaining lift and momentum to fly around the room a few times, and then flew straight out the nearby window.
The kitsune, satisfied, put away the rest of the paper stack and got up to leave the room. "Now we got a new set of 'eyes' to help us..." she said to herself as she exited...
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Kura calmly walked among the masses of spirits, having already searched three floors below where he and the others were last bathing. He found no sign of the lost spirit, but there has been an unusual minor scent lingering since their arrival which puzzled him. He remembered such a scent as human, but...LIVING humans here?