Up above the hole in the ground, Ira is speaking to her watch:
"Are you certain?"
"It's not that I don't trust you. It's just that you said we didn't do this until after..."
"But this reduces our advantage-"
Up above the hole in the ground, Ira is speaking to her watch:
"Are you certain?"
"It's not that I don't trust you. It's just that you said we didn't do this until after..."
"But this reduces our advantage-"
Jenn turns, and hugs Bina. "We'll thank you. You did- something pretty spectacular to save me."
Jenn doesn't say any of the things she could, about how most people wouldn't have (about how Jenn isn't entirely certain she wouldn't have). Instead, she hugs Bina tighter.
"We should get a move on," she says, but makes no move to let go.
Bina's pretty thoroughly hugging her back. "Yeah. I think we're asleep. But I don't know for how long."
Nod. Reluctant unhug. Then, to Elizabeth, "Can you get us to the office from here? Without going through camp?"
"I'd want to skim around camp for safety, but to be honest it might be better to walk around the outside - less likely to get us lost. We haven't explored the area with the office yet, other than marking it unsafe."
"It's past them, so we'll want to swing out a bit, but shifting back towards the wall shouldn't be difficult after that. I can lead the way."
Jenn nods again, and takes the rucksack off Bina. She will totally do an insistent, stubborn thing with her eyes if Bina tries to resist.
Bina is fully capable of doing insistent, stubborn things with her eyes, too! And of clinging very tightly to her backpack.
-They really don't have time to argue. Jenn is very tempted to just pick Bina up. She resists the temptation.
"We trade if you need to," she states.
Jenn is keeping a very close eye on Bina. If she sees one stumble, so help her whatever god isn't green and tentacly and time-travelly, she is picking Bina up, consequences be damned.
Bina is being very careful! And also starting on filling Elizabeth in - mostly skipping over the 'I think the botfly grants wishes' because she super doesn't want that getting out.
Eventually she catches up to stuff Jenn hasn't heard yet, like the most recent dream.
Jenn fills in a handful of things from her perspective - mostly to make it clear that all three of them are seeing the time shenanigans in a different way. But mostly just lets Bina explain.
Elizabeth does eventually ask Jenn, "I'm moderately curious how she managed to catch you," during a lull while Bina gets some water.
...Where's a distraction when you need one?
Jenn looks somewhat cagey. "She's surprisingly fast," she says, which does not really answer any questions. "And she cheats."
"If you must know, she hit me with a trash can. That was pretty successful in putting me off my game. I suppose I should just be thankful she didn't actually kill me."
"Wonder why. No offense, but according to Bina she would have killed James if given the opportunity - which matches with the messages we'd found in the office - and he's less of a threat."
Jenn smiles, and her whole demeanour changes, and suddenly, she almost resembles a college student, and her accent as she switches back to French suggests she's from France rather than Canada "But I'm just a lost tourist, just in town, why on earth would I be a threat?"