Bina makes a column of 'probably won't work', a column of 'past Bina plans' and a column of 'Ideas!'

'Shooting it' is written down under 'won't work', and the list of plans under 'past'. She then steps back, and hums.

Well then: brainstorming!

...Although they're working at a deficit. It's gonna be hard to get anywhere that feels like a serious headway.

Yeah. It's easier to rule ideas out. 

After some brainstorming, Bina suggests they focus just on more immediate plans for now - what they're going to do, where they're going to go when they leave the Moment.

Jenn has one thing that she won't take any arguments on - they need to get to some kind of medical professional to get their various scrapes seen to. Probably not Jenn's, but Bina's knees definitely.

Bina's... Really not too happy about that. She doesn't trust - people in general. She doesn't want them thinking it's a good idea to look at the Botfly. (There's a brief argument with Elizabeth over this. Elizabeth says her organization has infohazard protocols. Bina's not sure that will protect against human ambition.)

But... If there's someone specific Jenn trusts...

(Jenn is definitely sceptical of any infohazard protocol being good enough against the Botfly.)

Not locally unfortunately. She hasn't been in the city long enough to get a network in place.

"My roommate's a medical student? She's - really excited about timetravel, but otherwise pretty steady."

"That sounds like it might be our best option?"

"Yeah, probably." She rubs at her face. "The antibiotics also aren't - doing much for my knees. They're not getting, like, blood infection, but..."

-That's definite concern from Jenn. "Alright. So that's our plan then? Your apartment?"

"I think so. Should be easy-ish to aim for, at least... Though I think Lainey's in class right now, we'll have to get her to come back to the apartment."

"None of us have phones..." Jenn grimaces. "Go back to before she leaves?"

"...I actually left my phone in my appartment, I think? But jumping earlier might be good if we need time for treatment..."

"I feel like that's almost certain." Pause. "But we probably shouldn't use the Moment to mess around with where we are in time. I feel like that has a risk of eroding the Moment more than we want."

She nods. "So we'll look through the other time machines."

"There's bound to be something." Looks at the whiteboard. "I think we're as far as we can get right now."

She rubs at her face. "Possibly, yeah. We just... Don't know enough."

"My organization might be able to get us resources - an evacuation, or else some help sent in... Though it really depends on how much other departments believe us, we're not often taken very seriously."

"Exactly what organization do you work for, anyway?"

"The Department of Phenomenological Investigation and Research. Most of the time when we're called out it's because someone thought a shadow was a monster. But there are - inexplicable things, that we've handled before."

Jenn hums neutrally. "Anything this dangerous?"

"Not that I know of, sorry. Water cooler talk is mostly ghosts and potential post- or pre-cognition through dreams."

"Then, no offence, but involving them seems like a serious risk. Because it's not about how much you trust your team, but about how much you can trust the people your team answers to. Governments are very good at letting power hungry people get power."

"I suppose you would know, being an ambassador's kid. Still - they have resources we don't. The three of us can't get anywhere evacuated, let alone 'three blocks around the laundromat' or even 'the entire city'. This thing - it's going to be obvious. People are already looking into it. Going to them allows us to seize control of the narrative."

Jenn clicks her tongue, looks across to Bina. (Because she doesn't trust Elizabeth's superiors.)