"That would've been the smart thing to do, yeah... I don't hear any wigglies nearby at least..."

"Alright. This place is defensible. So unless we need to leave, let's not."

She nods, and turns to Elizabeth, who agrees. "Shouldn't be too long at least? And maybe we can check if there's anything else we want to bring, we left in a hurry last time..."

"That, is an an excellent idea."

"I'll take upstairs?" Elizabeth says. (She's well aware Bina's still favoring her knees.)

"Go ahead," Jenn nods.

"Be back in a few minutes, or if I hear something," she says, before heading up.

Bina's made herself stop breathing deeply and start looking around.

Jenn starts as well, waiting a little before speaking. "Have you noticed...trusting. Elizabeth? Unusually?"

She pauses. Thinks. "...I never tell people things," she says, quietly, after a long moment. "Unless I trust them."

(Ignoring the pleased feeling that apparently Bina trusts Jenn...)

"I tend not to either," she agrees. "I wasn't sure if I was just..." (Imagining things? Reacting to nearly melting her own brain with paradox? Something like that.)

She can guess why that might happen.

"She saw it," Bina says, quietly.

"So, I think we're three for three on the Botfly granting some kind of ability. I don't even know how to count Ira in all of this."

"I'd probably count her. I guess it depends on if she controls the naughts? And, uh, not-Ant."

"So four for four. We all looked at it. It's given us all...something."

"Why? And just - why each thing? I think - Ira would've wanted Ant back, 'be trusted' might be something Elizabeth wants, 'not dying' is a reasonable want, but - I hate time travel! That's not what I want!"

"More time?"

"I don't - think so." She goes quiet a bit. "There's some stuff I'd change if I could like go back in time and shake my younger self, but this isn't that, and everyone sometimes wants that, it's not a me thing."

"But we already figured out: this thing doesn't understand us. What if this is it trying to give you that?"

"That doesn't feel right. I don't know..."

"We're still working on... guesses really," Jenn agrees. "I'm not sure how to even figure out why you got time travel."

"I think it's - maybe convenient for it. Maybe the timeline damage helps it. Maybe it has to give something, and is just - picking things out of a bag. Maybe Bina Zero was different."

"...It giving us things that advance its goals would make sense. But feels like I'm attributing too human a logic to it."

" - I think 'has goals and attempts to obtain them' would be. Mostly universal?"

"Hm. You're probably not wrong."