"Hate not being able to heal myself," she said, face twisting in irritation and pain both. "I didn't bring anything I could take for it."

But she was craning her neck all the same, looking for faces she recognized amid the chaos.

"I lost track of Seiichi," she said, sounding a little more pitiful than she meant to. "Should we... I mean, we should do what he'd want us to be doing."