Bina nods too.

The terrain's increasingly treacherous as they go, and increasingly slow, until Bina signals for a halt, leans around a corner, and points.

There's an iron gate, flanked by two small buildings, and a horrible sweet smell. Like rotting meat, almost.

"The courtyard's through there," she whispers. "Building on the right's the office. Next to it, with the collapsed roof, had a door into it."

"Botfly's in the courtyard, yes?"

Nod.

Jenn sneaks another look. Can they get into the office from this side?

Through the window, or maybe through the collapsed building beside it.

Is the window already open or broken?

No, but it looks like it's on a track and can be slid up.

"Window," she murmurs, barely audible. "Should be able to get inside through it."

"Yeah," Bina whispers, and starts trudging forwards. The stretch before the office is mostly clear, at least.

Small mercies. Jenn's still keeping a sharp eye out.

The window is very, very faintly squeaky, but they're able to get inside without incident - 

A glance back towards the hole, clearly visible from here, will reveal the crane beginning to move.

Jenn starts a countdown in her head. (She has suspicions now, about the green flash they saw while they were ascending.)

She looks to Bina. "Your show," she murmurs. "Where would you hide something in here?"

"The hole," she whispers. "Where the note was."

And indeed it's bigger than it was, plaster chipped away, and deep, to the point where Bina has to shove her arm all the way in, and her fingers brush straw before finding a slip of paper.

(The door has 'What kind of maggot grows in the corpse of a day' scrawled on it, but the material's run in black streaks down the door, and there's a turpentine scent and an oily, chemical film over the mud.)

The note reads:

To find the place inside the time you must find the key inside the world.

-B12

Bina groans.

Elizabeth, meanwhile, discovers two discarded hazmat suits.

She suspects she knows where Josh and Kate went...

And then there's a metallic rattling outside, as if something is brushing up against the gate.

"Down," Jenn hisses.

Because that's the Corpse out there.

Bina drops to a crouch. Doesn't whisper, but does think - there's no maps - it might've been something there originally - 

The globe.

She crawls over to the desk to try and look for it, and when she does it comes apart at a touch -

There's a stopwatch inside, and another note.

You know what to do.

-B12

Not-Ant is outside, looming outside the window, obviously looking for something-

Jenn keeps low to move over to Bina, looking to make sure Elizabeth is following them.

She does.

Bina, not knowing what else to do, checks the time.

...That's not a watch.

It's a time machine, the parts incredibly, impossibly tiny, crammed into the space in a way that just shouldn't work.

She pushes it at Jenn. "It's a necklace," she hisses. "Put it on, I'll use the unlight - both of you take my hand - "

Jenn doesn't necessarily like that, but she obeys, and reaches for Bina, watching for-

"Shit."

The Corpse has stuck its head into the office, and is looking directly at them.

Bina starts undoing her bandages - 

And the Corpse starts to move towards them-