Now that Ty knew June was both machines, it would be easy for him to transform her back. He thought about the machines and willed her to become human again.
And nothing happened.
Oh, no! Ty thought. This was like one of the recent problems he'd had transforming Lisa back to normal! Despite knowing exactly where June was, somehow he couldn't transform her!
Well, he'd solved that problem with Lisa, though he'd had to go to great lengths (astronomical, he thought, and laughed), to assemble her four billion pieces. June was only in two pieces. How hard could it be?
As he was thinking, June-dryer's buzzer sounded, and she stopped tumbling. Ty opened her door, and started to emptying the clothes out of her, and folding and stacking them. Ty normally disliked this part of doing laundry, but at the moment he didn't mind so much, as it gave him time to think. And it was getting him hot again thinking about how he was unloading the clothes from his mother.
No! Stop thinking that! Ty told himself. He didn't want to be turned on by this. He had to figure out how to fix it!
As he finisher folding the dry clothes, he saw that the washer was also nearing the end of its cycle. Would both June appliances being done help him transform her back? She'd been pretty adamant about finishing, but he still didn't think that was the problem.
He emptied June-dryer's lint filter, and closed her door. He idly ran his hand across her surface as he thought.
June was in two pieces, but that shouldn't be causing him a problem with transforming her. While he hadn't been able on his own to put Lisa back together from four billion pieces, before that he hadn't had any problem, or needed to make any special effort, to restore Lisa from four pieces. So how could only two pieces be causing him trouble?
He mentally conjured up the imaging machine he'd used to find the Lisa pieces, and tried it on the June-dryer, but it didn't work. It just told him, "Error". Oh, of course, he thought. He'd conceived of the imaging machine to distinguish female tissue (bits of Lisa) from male tissue (the cocks her pieces were embedded into). For this problem, he needed slightly different imagery, as he needed to distinguish human tissue (June) from mostly inorganic material (the dryer). He modified his mental construct, and tried again.
This time the imagery seemed to work, or at least, it didn't give an error, but he was surprised at what he saw. He couldn't actually tell how many pieces of June he saw, because he didn't see her in just one place in the machine. She seemed to be uniformly distributed throughout it. She did seem to comprise less than half of the machine, but as he zoomed in closer and closer on her, her geometry became more and more complex. He zoomed in even further, and was surprised that no matter how far he zoomed, he seemed to see the same complex shapes.
Whoa! Ty thought. What was that thing his math teacher had told him about. Self-similar curves? Scale invariance? June wasn't a simple portion of the machine, she was a fractal!
Ty turned his mental imaging construct to the washing machine, and this time was not at all surprised to find that the human part of June-washer was a fractal, too.