> "Let's head there, then."
> Head to the inn.
> Along the way: "By the way, I remember Yakumo sometimes having a fox youkai in her company. Has anyone heard from her?"

> She nods "You'd think Ran would race to get here upon hearing of a statue resembling her master being discovered. In fact her absence was my first hint of something fishy going on here and could mean one two things: Yukari and Ran are totally in on this and the statue itself is the incident along with the mystery surrounding it, or Yukari really did get turned to gold and she's having difficulty reaching us as a result."

> With the eagerness of a trivia show contestant Sanae explains "She's actually a Shikigami if you didn't know, meaning she shares magical energy with Yukari and thus could be experiencing... how should I put it.. withdrawal symptoms without it. Kind of like what you'd experience if you visited the outside world for too long!"

> "That's her. Can you get a constant image of her, where we can see her move around in real time?"

> "Let's head there, then."
> Head to the inn.
> Along the way: "By the way, I remember Yakumo sometimes having a fox youkai in her company. Has anyone heard from her?"

> We calculated from Lamplighter that the stars have been missing for longer than that, yes?

> "About how long ago, would you say?"

>"Night before last," she says. "Had a cow get lost, so I was up later than usual."

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