"-Pipe thing?"

"Uhhhhh so the wigglies are kinda slow, and I managed to lead a bunch into this building, except then I kinda. Got cornered. They weren't really chasing me was the problem, they kept circling around to drop down in front of me and that made stuff stupidly hard."

"So there was this pipe. Maybe a drain? Anyways I escaped through that. I didn't get stuck! Just. A bit momentumly challenged. And soggy. But a bunch of them got themselves wedged into it, and I got out on the other side just fine."

"-I am finding a pair of handcuffs and chaining myself to you."

"I'm not that bad!"

"Uh-huh," Jenn's tone is a bit lighter now. "Tell that to your pipe adventure."

"I can pick locks anyways."

Jenn reminds herself that now is not the time to propose a lock picking race. "It's a useful skill."

She pulls the journal out and holds it out. "Wanna read?"

"You got the important stuff, right, we don't have time - "

And she's tired and her head's spinning enough she's not sure she'll be able to read.

"-But what if we did."

"What do you mean? Like, time travel?"

"Yes. But- So. We have designs. And most of them need a piece of the future and a piece of the past. But there's one that doesn't... And it's...it's almost like a radio? Except one picking up time rather than radio waves?"

"- At some point I'd like an explanation you know."

"That machine sounds sensible except for all the ways it's convenient."

"You're not wrong. But-" Jenn frowns. "What if we- you're expected to go to the Moment now? And I don't mind saying it. The wigglies aren't fast, but do you really think we can avoid them?"

"Probably not? And Zoomy was fast."

"I think I can make this?" Jenn says - sounding a lot more confident than she actually feels. Pauses. "Your call if you think this is too convenient."

She shakes her head. "No. It sounds like something I'd want to develop. I'm guessing it's not perfect?"

(Elizabeth, meanwhile, has started writing a report on the sticky notes. She probably won't be able to leave a copy in camp but this is a reasonable place to look for them, so some notes - all the parts except "what you need to know to survive" coded, she isn't an idiot - are getting left here.)

"Almost certainly not. I think I might be able to use that fragment as a focus but...we're kinda gonna be leaping at somewhere where time is already...broken? As it were?"

"Yeah. That doesn't sound super good."

"No. But I'm not sure we exactly have a 'good' option right now."

She nods. "How long do you need to make it?"

"Half an hour? Maybe a little longer? I don't- exactly have experience with time machines, but..." She shrugs. "Less if I didn't have to jerry-rig a radio out of hand warmers and flashlights."

Elizabeth furrows her brow. "We used to have radios back at the camp, but they didn't work - heavy static, mostly, but also higher chance of failing badly. I don't know if they're still there. I know there's at least two places with a lot of wiring in the factory - I can make a basic radio out of that."

Jenn nods. "How close are those places?"