"Kind of? I don't understand all of it, but direct n-tuning appears to be through time," she indicates one of her tuning devices, "lateral n-tuning appears to mean through space?" She indicates the other. "Unless I've got that vastly wrong."

"You'll know more -"

There's the sound of breaking glass from upstairs, and a series of thumps.

"-Shit. Out of time. Can you-?" Jenn gestures vaguely at Bina's arm.

"Yeah, flashlight's probably safer - "

She grabs one in her right hand, flicks it on, and shines the green beam at the floor. There's already growing cracks in the air, and it's getting cold. "Where?"

Jenn points at where she wants the unlight.

She'll shine it.

Elizabeth will position herself at the edge of the base of the stairs with one of the makeshift weapons she's fashioned.

And Jenn will start trying to tune in a time machine.

There's a series of breaking sounds from upstairs, some banging on their blocked windows and doors downstairs - 

And a Naught that appears to have crawled through the chest cavity of another Naught and gotten stuck that way flails to the top of the stairs.

She will not panic. This is fine. She can do this. She just needs to stay focused on finding the space-

"There's nothing," she says, her tone completely flat.

"Did you screw up?" Bina asks, grabbing a hammer in her unoccupied hand.

"What? I- no. I don't think so-"

"Then  try again."

Jenn breathes, and tries again.

It's faint, but-

But it's all she's got. And they're running out of time.

So she activates it.

She grabs Elizabeth's hand, dragging her away from the Naughts, and Jenn's -

And they're falling through time.

At least they're falling together.

Jenn isn't sure she got the lateral thing right. But she's watching for where they land.

The landing's pretty hard - Bina slams into what appears to be a washing machine knocked over on its side. There's mud on the ground, slimy and smelling of brick dust.

It's the laundromat, and it looks like there was a fight - or a chase - in here.

Also one corner, where the front wall meets the side meets the ceiling, is missing, a gaping hole lined with green. There's a little loop of red around one of the jagged edges.

That immediately gets Jenn's attention. "-Last time there wasn't a massive hole," she says.

"This is after the not-Ant..." she says, wedging herself up and looking around - and spotting the loop of red.

"Shit! We need to go - "

Jenn doesn't question it, just looks around for the best way to go.

Too late!

Past Bina, whose knees and ribs still work, climbs out of the hole. 

"Me?" she asks, smiling.

"Me!" current Bina groans, distinctly not smiling.

And past Bina has a teenager on her back, who looks around, and grins.

"This is bad, isn't it." It isn't a question.

Current Bina makes a high pitched noise, just. Waiting for her brain to start melting.

Except nothing happens for several long moments.

...The sensation of being embarrassed at something you're going to do to your past self in her future is. Weird. Bina's sorry about the knees. Really.

And - no.

No no no no no!

She's blushing, why is she blushing! She's about to be splattered by temporal paradox and the last thing she's going to do will be blush!!!

"Uhhhhh, so I'm guessing this wasn't supposed to happen?" poor innocent past Bina asks.