If you wish, but there actually is a plug, right here. It will let us disconnect them and carry them separately. Much less dangerous.

[ To the integrity of the machine. Xichen can make sure the lot of them are safe, he... thinks.

Long slender fingers reach to tug the plug free, safely, and hold it up to show. And then he feels around and presses a few places until there are respective clicks - not cracks, just the clicks of clasps opening - and he almost smiles, pleased that he could manage this much all on his own, and tugs the pads away from the body of the machine. ]

Like this.