"If Jake has it - "

"He doesn't. ...I think."

"It fell out of my pocket in Josephine's office, along with my knife. I - that girl, I needed to save her, so I wasn't cautious."

"There was a hole in the calendar with my knife, when the - timetravel I guess - stopped, but... The screwdriver wasn't anywhere."

"Oh."

She stares at her other self, something distant and lost in her expression. 

And then she takes a screwdriver out of her pocket and holds it out to Lily. It's the same, in the way Twelve and Thirteen are the same.

"Surviving will be very hard without it," she says, softly. "So - take mine."

She reaches out, hesitantly, and closes her hand over the tool, brushing against Twelve's palm. "You won't have it, then," she points out.

"I won't."

"But we already know I fail. I'd rather pass this to you, than - try to hoard every scrap of useless advantage."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

"And, Thirteen... You can't stop this break. It already happened."

"So get out of here and fix it."

"I will."

(There's a terrible screech, somewhere distant. Raised voices. Anger, pain, fear, grief. There's an echo, an undertone of someone's world shattering.)

(And Lily...)

Wakes up.

She's not as dirty as she was, though she's still pretty grungy, and the chill is being held off by a warm body under hers, arms around her, something heavy over her.

"You awake?" someone murmurs in her ear. 

Yeah. Not very happy about it, but yeah. 

She groans and tries to nod. Her head only moves a little.

She's stiff, and she feels like jelly at the same time. It's unpleasant. 

The arms tighten around her briefly. 

"Good."

Shuffle.

"...Where's the blanket from."

That is definitely a blanket on her, feels like one of those space age hypothermia blankets, but Lily's pretty sure they're in the same cavern still. Probably on the same platform.

"There was a bag with supplies by us when I woke up."

"...Oh."

"It had a note."

Ugh.

"What'd it say?"

"Uh, hold on..." There's some shuffling, and she pulls out a paper note sealed in a plastic bag, and pushes it to Lily.

She takes it.

Punica,

The Moment is the safest place. Get to it ASAP; use the screwdriver. But be cautious of what you believe there. P3 lies. P5 poss. allied w/ her. Unsure others.

Supplies & journal in backpack in TV safehouse. No time to read the entire journal 1st. It contains essentials.

IMPORTANT: unlight damages time. Machines reduce this + bleed off backlash from past changes. ⬆ change = ⬆ backlash. Dmg always >0.

The Moment shrinks as used - access on loop = faster. Imp things are in house across from laundry.

Jake poss. knows of loops. The botfly is waking up.

-P12

And noting else.

Lily hands it back to Phoenix, numb.

"Do we know where the Moment is?"

"...No. And - I don't really know what it is."

"And we need a magic dream screwdriver you don't have to get to it."

The dream nudges forward, and Lily reaches into her shirt.

The screwdriver's there. It wasn't earlier.

There's something otherworldly about it, seen in reality, but - Lily can't quite put her finger on it. It looks normal. The handle's worn, the metal's dull, there's scrapes where there should be...

"Wait, is that - ?" She pauses, looks at it, then: "How is it clean?"

"It's a magic timetraveling dream screwdriver, and the part that's tripping you up is the lack of mud?"