"Might also be good to rotate out who's searching, but we can decide that later."

"It'll keep fresh eyes on the reading as well."

"Good point. So - meet up for dinner?"

Jenn nods. "If anyone else feels like taking a turn at cooking, please do."

"I can cook some, though I'll have to look at our ingredients."

"I'd appreciate that."

"Some comfort food would be nice, right about now. How about I go do that?"

"That sounds excellent. I'll get back on with the journals?"

"Yeah, that works."

Jenn nods, and gathers up enough of the journals to keep her going for now, and follow Bina into the kitchen.

Bina finds ingredients for idlis, though they'll have to be tomorrow's breakfast. Still, she can start them now, and also gather other bits for comfort food. Most of what they're down to is dried or canned, but Bina's a college student and has cooked with worse.

Jenn continues to read the journals, looking out for anything important, occasionally making a comment about what she's reading to Bina.

It begins to become obvious that most of the Bina's had some sort of plan - usually one of the last things they talk about, and their focus leading up to the blackout period. Four was close to finishing her map. Six mentioned her temporal slingshot being ready for a test. Seven's bomb was probably finished; she was trying to figure out how to get it to the Botfly's Moment. Eight was leaving to test her anti-Naught device. Nine scribbled out an idea about kidnapping and interrogating Ira, then wrote no more. Ten was working on a paradox bomb. Eleven was going to try disrupting the Naughts. Twelve - it's hard to tell what Twelve was doing, but probably trying to talk to Five.

"Twelve said this was the last loop right?"

"Yeah." There's something a bit odd about the plans, but she's trying not to think too hard about it - thoughts like that tend to wiggle away when you look directly at them.

Jenn hums. "I'm not sure we can trust Twelve's knowledge there. I mean. Us managing to...solve this is optimal. But..."

"Josephine said the same thing, and Three said something similar - that someone looking past me would screw everything up."

"So. We don't actually have any data for anything past us. It doesn't mean nothing exists past us, just that no-one can check. Alright."

"Checking also wouldn't be a good idea, because if there's a Fourteen, that means we failed pretty much, and - even if we're not last, I don't think we want the timeline taking much more damage."

"And we don't want any Fourteen bound to something because we've looked."

"Yeah. If - if it looks like we're gonna fail, we can... Do the jump for the wall, or ask Three to do it, but otherwise... I think we shouldn't go out of our way to try and find her?"

"Sound plan," Jenn agrees.

She pauses in cooking to rub at her face some. "Ugh. Have I mentioned lately I hate timetravel? Because I do. If this was Bina zero's wish I'm going to find a way to launch myself to the first loop just so I can make her step on infinite legos."

"If you figure it out, take me with you?" Jenn requests, crossing over to Bina and rubbing her shoulders gently.

She leans into it a bit. "Of course. I'll take all of you." Her brow furrows a bit, but the thought escapes her before she can grab onto it.