Jenn nods. "I did some...approximate math on our supplies. Food wise, we've probably got about a week's worth for the four of us."

She doesn't have time to mope then, or spin in her head because of everything with the other hers - 

"Ugh," is what she says. "We'll need to work fast, then."

Jenn holds a plate right under Bina's nose. "Food first. Then we work fast."

"You're totally the mum-friend, aren't you?"

She takes the plate. "Such the mom friend."

Jenn laughs. "Well. If it means everyone's fed."

Ant gets handed a plate, and Jenn puts one aside for Elizabeth before getting her own.

Bina chows down. "Anything else in the inventory? We should probably try to sort the journals... Figure out what's up with all the machines..."

"I've put all the medical stuff together. It's...acceptable. But yeah. We need to see about the journals, and the Viewers."

"The Viewers?" There's a tickle of memory, like she's heard them mentioned, but she's not sure.

"-Did I not explain them? You can use them to look through time, forwards or backwards. But only by one loop? Twelve thought they'd been purposefully sabotaged."

"I don't think I've heard of them. Those sound useful, but maybe dangerous - Josephine's note said something about forward being worse?"

"Yeah. I'd want to be careful about any use of them. But I think they're important for other reasons."

"Makes sense. There's got to be other machines too."

She rubs a hand down her face. She - wants to rest, wants to take a few days to think and - try to process everything.

She doesn't want to jump immediately into the tangle of math and fake physics her brain screams is a trap.

Jenn definitely seems to pick up on that, and leans over to squeeze her shoulder.

She leans back a bit.

Jenn's good.

She has her friends.

She just needs to remember that. Trust them, maybe, even if it's hard.

Jenn smiles warmly at her. "You're not alone this time."

"Yeah. ...Yeah. Thanks."

"What're friends for?"

"Apparently fighting alien space bugs."

"Well, you're our plucky heroine, Jenn's the stoic veteran, Elizabeth is...uh, the government person who everyone's still trying to get the measure of, which...I think leaves me as the comic relief?"

"And world's best crutch, can't forget that."

"I do make a very good crutch," Ant agrees cheerfully.

"It's a much underrated role I find, that of a crutch."

"Seems to be something I need a lot lately."