Bina...

Still doesn't trust them.

But she's less certain her mistrust is - actually reasonable and not her brain just deciding to make everything her responsibility, and her brain doesn't always trust people even when they should be trusted - 

She wonders if her therapist knows how to deal with alien space bugs. Bina's not certain she does.

She wonders when she ended up the person apparently in charge.

But - 

"I don't trust them, not right now. We can - compartmentalize? Avoid observing stuff that'll change if we do get them to evacuate or something. And decide later. It's not like we have more than a day."

Putting off the decision feels like running away, but Bina does a lot of that. It's a familiar feeling.

Elizabeth takes a deep breath, and - "Alright. Fine. But if we start losing - we do it my way, alright?" She glances at Jenn, too.

Jenn seems to concede the point, with a gracious nod.

"...Alright. That's - fine, I guess." She rubs a hand down her face. "Look - is there anything else to decide?"

"I don't think so. Apart from what time machine we're going to take with us."

"Yeah. We'll need to look at those, then I guess - decide if it's worth it to sleep in the Moment one last night."

"We don't know how easy it's going to be to sleep once we're out of this. I don't think we can overestimate the use of a good night's sleep."

"Definitely. And it'll probably be late, when we figure out the time machines."

"One more night, and we go early tomorrow."

"Works for me."

"Any objections, Elizabeth?"

"Not immediately. I might think of something later - but it seems a solid enough plan for now."

Jenn nods, and steps off the back of the couch. (Ant mutters something about it being unfair how tall Jenn is.)

"Time machines?" she says to Bina, ignoring Ant's mutterings.

"Yeah." She smiles a bit. "No time like the present."

"No," Jenn agrees as she starts to head for where the time machines are. "There really isn't"

She smiles at Jenn.

And then time machines can be sorted through! Bina's not really sure what their division of labor is here - she thinks she might be good looking at the diagrams and schematics, since she knows at least some of how her alternate selves will have been thinking.

Well. They can figure it out somehow between them.

Did Elizabeth follow them?

Yes. She's currently surveying the room without actually touching anything.

Damn. She'll get Bina alone when they're heading to bed then. Shut up brain, not like that.

Well then. Down to time machine selection. That is going to take some time.

It does indeed. There's a lot of different time machines, which are different levels of portable, and meant for different ideal tasks...

They'll be here a while.

"I don't think it needs to be too portable. Except for us needing to get it to your apartment."

"Yeah. 'Course, some of these might have trouble fitting..."

"How large a space do we have to work with?"

"Uh..." She outlines the dimensions, both in numbers and in vague marking it out.

"Alright then," Jenn taps a finger against her leg. She sets about identifying all the time machines that would fit in those dimensions, preferably with room to spare.