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-"
"-Shit. Guess it's time to find out whether or not this thing actually works." She gestures at her attempt at a time machine.
"I'll get our supplies." Luckily most of them are together; still, there's some they'd been using that still need packing up.
Bina gets to her feet -
And her hand lands on her grandmother's scarf.
...Well, it's convenient for tying up her hair, which she does. She'll examine the dream scarf problem later.
"What do we need to do, for the machine?"
"It needs 'unlight', which, I think, means your arm woo-woo. And then I kind of...try to tune it in? To the break? With these," she indicates the relevant pieces, which are a bit makeshift. "They should kind of...vibrate? When I find the right place with the n-tuning. It's...a little imprecise."
"Approximately? That moment with the TV. We've got that piece to use as a...focus? I guess?"
She nods. "We might want to be careful we don't land on ourselves. I wouldn't like the backlash from that."
"I think I can avoid that? The damage... I think the big damage was done after-or-as you were leaving?"
"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.
"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?"
Elizabeth will position herself at the edge of the base of the stairs with one of the makeshift weapons she's fashioned.
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.
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.