Yai blearily climbed out of bed.
"I'm hungry." she mumbled, blinking a few times. The clock showed it a bit past midnight. Model P floated off her nightstand.
'You could alert the maids.' he suggested. Yai yawned.
"No, that's too much fuss." she said. She wandered away, leaving Glide's PET be. She waited at the door, hearing a couple of footsteps and voices. She frowned. "Mmm, already sounds like the night crew is up." she said. Model P lowered himself.
'Then ask them.' he said. Yai glared.
"I don't want any fuss!" she repeated. She grinned slyly. "Why don't you take me?" she asked. She was certain Model P blinked.
'Me?' he asked. Yai set her hand on her hip.
"Of course. Then I can get downstairs, have a snack, and not bother anyone. We'll be as quiet as a mouse." she said. Model P considered this, then groaned.
'My powers should not be used for such a trivial matter. However, you are my Biomatch, and one whom I am loyal to.' he said. Yai smiled, and held the Biometal.
"Alright then! Model P, Megamerge!" she said. Model P flashed.
'MEGA System, online.' Yai lightly stepped forward, and slid the door open without a sound. She wandered into the dark hall, and jumped up onto the ceiling. A flashlight shone down the hall. Yai curled up her legs, and watched the guard wander down. He let out a yawn.
Yai dropped down, and the guard paused. He turned around, and shone his flashlight down the hall. Stealth mode! The guard shrugged, and left. Yai let out the breath she had been holding and reappeared. She walked down the hall, and paused at the stairs. She leaned over them, and looked at the tiles below. She jumped onto the railing, and walked down it as daintily as a cat. She sat down on the stair railing, and slid down it. She smiled to herself.
"I usually never get to do this." she whispered.
'Because of all the eyes, correct?' Model P asked. Yai jumped off the end of them.
"While it is nice that everybody cares about my well-being, and they do let me do what I want, I still get annoyed that everybody looks like they're about to faint every time I slide down." she said. Model P seemed surprised, confused, and completely baffled all at once. Yai noticed another guard, and attached herself to a pillar. The guard passed by swinging his flashlight far ahead and not to the above. Yai hopped from column to column, getting closer and closer to the kitchen. She landed, and tapped in the code to the pantry. The door slid open, and she smiled. Model P was stock-still.
'This is a pantry.' he stated. Yai flipped a scarf strand back.
"Of course! It's stocked with mine and the staff's favorites! Mostly mine." she said. She motioned to a pink refrigerator with strawberry patterning. "This is my stash of strawberry milk, strawberry cream, and strawberry ice cream." she said. She passed by another fridge, a brown one with bento box outlines. "This is where my school lunches are stored, a shelf for every day of the week." She passed by a final, personal fridge, covered with Navimark of her friends' NetNavis. "And this is the fridge that I let my friends raid. There's a curry shelf, a junk food shelf, a tea shelf... They change with preferences." she explained. Model P seemed to be getting even more lost.
'...You have a fridge just for strawberry milk.' he said. Yai nodded.
"Of course I do. Only the fresh stuff too. I give the older stuff to the staff and to friends." she said. She stopped in front of another fridge. "This is the everything ice cream fridge." she said, and started reading through the current list. "Hm, birthday cake, rocky road, kumquat... Passion Fruit Tango Sherbet looks like a good one." she said.
She could still feel the incredulousness from Model P as she took out a waffle cone from the dispenser, and a scoop from the side of the fridge. She had to hide on the ceiling as a guard came in, but eating a sherbet ice cream cone tasted weirdly nice upsidedown. And she got to watch the guard's baffled face as he looked at the scoop still in the ice cream bucket. Yai took another lick.
"He deserves a raise." she mumbled.
