"It did seem the expedient way to do it."

"I'm kind of curious to explore it a bit more, but, well..."

"When the Moment was first set up, the Nothing was...a space shuttle journey away apparently?"

"Third's notes seem to indicate she thinks it was as big as the currently-occupied-by-matter universe; she couldn't see the edge with a telescope. It apparently shrank really fast at first, though."

"It's not slowing down for us though I don't think. Probably because there's four of us rather than just one."

"We were on a jump earlier. We'll have to see how the measurements change now I guess?"

"Hopefully we're putting less strain on it."

"Yeah. It'll be bad if it keeps shrinking that fast..."

"We're going to run out of food before we run out of Moment, even at that rate, if my maths is right."

"Yeah. Still, it'd limit how much we can use it for moving around."

"Which is...less than ideal," Jenn agrees.

She nods. "If it's shrinking that fast, we might want to leave earlier than we absolutely have to."

Jenn nods.

Ant looks down, playing with eir food more than eating it now.

"Hey, Ant, we'll get you out of here, okay?"

Ey manages something approximating a smile. "Yeah, I know you'll try."

"All we need to do is beat up a god. Easy enough."

"No-one fights gods any more. They're out of practice."

"Oh, we'll give them plenty."

"So much."

"Make them think it's the epic age again."

Ant giggles. "My money's on you guys. You're stubborn like that."

"Thanks!"

Jenn smiles warmly. "So, what're our plans for after dinner?"

"Group meeting? Get ourselves all on the same page, we've been doing a lot of separate stuff."