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Jenn knows that look. "C'mon. Let's go look at diagrams."

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"Right. Let's." And off to diagrams?

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To the diagrams! Jenn lays them out, and points out the stuff she's identified, and the stuff that's getting in her way.

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She, unfortunately, doesn't know what most of the terminology means. It's weird and unfamiliar. Some of it sounds made up.

There's something off too, poking at her. Not just the 'if Three didn't want us messing with them, why did they break', but also - 

The little dark line on the left, with the multiple short little perpendicular lines through it, that Twelve called clamps, and the diagrams called signal filters, that don't look much like either - with a little black box called 'support' that looks attached - 

She stops. Lowers the diagram, eyes wide.

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"What?" Jenn asks immediately.

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"This!" She says, pointing at the little squiggle. "Six calls it a signal filter, Twelve calls it a clamp, Three didn't even include it - there's that little split thingy under it above output - where'd we leave the hazmat supplies - "

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"Uh, I think Elizabeth knows that one? I think I might've been unconscious for it?"

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She thrusts the diagram at Jenn and runs off to find the hazmat supplies.

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Jenn watches her go, a little perplexed, but figuring that Bina will have a good reason.

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She comes back out with a hammer, a confused Elizabeth on her heels. 

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"What's that for?" Jenn asks.

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"On the diagram! It's not a clamp, or a signal filter - you see it, right, it's a switch - and why would Three sabotage the Viewers if she didn't want us messing with them - then if she wants us to mess with them, she should sabotage the Viewers - "

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Jenn looks at it. "-You're right. It's- of course. It's simple when you think about it..."

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"And flipped it'll skip this whole back wall, right?"

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"Yeah, yeah, it should..."

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"Great! That's what I thought!"

She swings the hammer.

Right through the back of the Viewer in question.

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"What the- some warning please!"

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"Sorry!" she calls, reaching through and fumbling.

It is, in fact, a switch.

There's a click, and the Viewer flickers on.

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Jenn's immediately on edge, not quite sure what to expect.

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Bina.

Tired. Deep circles below her eyes. The Moment on a string around her neck.

But a Bina

"Hello, Jenn," she intones. "I've been waiting to meet you."

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"-Hi. I'm...going to assume you're the one we've been calling Three?"

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"Yes. Though I don't think I'm the Third loop. And you'd be Elizabeth, wouldn't you?" she asks, nodding to the woman. "Where's my future self?"

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Bina comes around the corner. Sort of drops the hammer. "Uh. Hi?"

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Jenn doesn't think about it, just reaches out and takes her Bina's hand.

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Her Bina seems completely lost for words!

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