A Small Favor

Mrs. Manas was the first to react. "I will bring up your subconscious footage now," she said with haste. "See if you can find anything!" 

"The meat grinder! Bring that one up first! She asked me to get out of that window display just now!" When Lin Sanjiu finally came around to her senses, the first time that came into her mind was the meat grinder, as it was the most unique collection in the building. 

Soon enough, a messy assemblage of images flitted across her eyes. Odd bits and pieces of what had happened in the window displays kept swirling around in her head like a kaleidoscope, jagged colors, and sharp edges bumping into each other until the meat grinder finally projected clearly in her vision. 

However, there was nothing aside from the meat grinder in the window display.