Mari powered down Hakusan for the second time that night and waited for Kaede to come out of her trance. They’d been moving at top speed, but Hakusan’s was like a crawl. Kaede was pushing hard, and it was draining her. Dark circles had started to form under her eyes. Mari waited, worried. They still had one more shift to go before they were out of the fifty kilometer range of the border.
Kaede was stirring, and Mari unplugged her backside before going to pick up Kaede’s robe. As she did, the glow of Kaede’s energy faded, and the lights dimmed slightly. One of the ingenious designs built into Hakusan included a storage generator that collected energy to use while Kaede wasn’t hooked up to it, meaning they wouldn’t be in the dark in between shifts. It wasn’t enough to run the entire machine
