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-"
"...Spooky," Jenn murmurs, after confirming it is the same garage. "I think we were right about this place being duplicates of itself."
She nods. "With the factory dream, the other me was talking about temporal shadows - or how there shouldn't be any from moving the factory." But of course a Bina was the one to screw up.
Jenn thinks about that, looks around. "It does make landmarks a little less... stable, than I would like."
"It should either make sense in a conventional science way or not make sense in a Lovecraftian way, it's - like it's running on story logic."
Jenn hums. "I feel like there should be a way we can turn that to our advantage. But I'm unsure enough of what rules we're playing by as is."
"If it can change the rules at a whim, we do need to know - it's possibly worked around then, but that'd require having an idea of its psychology."
Silence falls.
Trudge trudge trudge.
The area around them starts getting unstable, more buildings heavily damaged enough that their roofs have collapsed, or gates are leaning, and there's more debris buried beneath the mud.
Jenn gets more cautious as the buildings are more damaged, back to watching Bina carefully - although subtly.
Okay, that's something. How much further do they even have to go? They have to be running out of time before the naughts show up.
A few minutes and another bend later: "Hey, I recognize those! I think we're close," Bina says, pointing to two smokestacks, one of which has lettering on it. "None of the other smokestacks had words."
Jenn nods. "Alright, it's... probably going to get more dangerous here. I don't know what kind of defences there'll be."