Well. With the blood gone, Ant will actually explore.

And Jenn goes to see what food they have and make some kind of dinner.

It's mostly non-perishables, but there's some wrapped fresh fruits and vegetables.

Bina and Elizabeth both emerge fairly soon.

Jenn has a fairly simple, but perfectly acceptable dinner put together for them all by that point.

"Thanks! This looks like the most delicious thing I've ever seen," Bina says as she comes in.

"Can't promise that, but after the morning we've had, I know the feeling."

"Oh gods, that smells good."

"...Ant, you get hungry?" Elizabeth asks, also coming in.

"I mean. Not until I was here? When I was just... In Bina's dreams? Not so much?"

"I remember you being hungry in the Josephine dream..."

"-Oh. Yeah. I'd forgotten that."

"Speaking of forgetting... Do you remember, that first time we met, after climbing up, landing in the laundromat and seeing an older me and these two?"

She super doesn't want to bring that up, but it seems important to know what happened.

"...should I?"

"We time traveled, and saw younger me climbing up with you on her back. You were there, in - like, the real world. And then you apparently vanished - there was a complicated thing with me jumping into a time hole, I didn't actually see what happened..."

"...no. I don't remember that."

"Something did happen with you and the not-you."

"I don't remember it, either. The first time, from past-me's perspective. And past-me thought she was dreaming. And, yeah, it was like - the not-you couldn't decide who to go after? It charged at me pretty determinedly when I threw something at it, though, but it was definitely staring at you."

"Huh. No. No memory of it at all..."

Nod. "I'll need to get you caught up too on - everything, I guess."

"Yeah. That-that seems like a good idea."

She'll start eating, then, and: "There's been a lot." She bites her lip.

Ant nods, and starts eating. "Start at the beginning?"

She nods, and does so.

Jenn helps out where she can.

Ant's mostly quiet as ey listens, occasionally grimacing when Ira comes up.