Our first idea, when Emmie confined me to the truck, was to send everyone back to the start of the day, and then have them search through time until they found Eight.
There had been two problems with that plan - the first was that it was expensive. We really can't be moving through time if we want the Moment to hold out long enough to get back to our Loop. We could get around that using another time machine, but nothing is as precise as the Moment, and I really don't want people to get scattered again.
The next was that it would basically strand everyone who went, giving them no way to get to safety if they ran into trouble. I'm the only source of unlight, with the possible exception of the Dead Moment - and we're definitely not using that.
Thankfully -
- Four had supplied a solution to both problems.
There had been two problems with that plan - the first was that it was expensive. We really can't be moving through time if we want the Moment to hold out long enough to get back to our Loop. We could get around that using another time machine, but nothing is as precise as the Moment, and I really don't want people to get scattered again.
The next was that it would basically strand everyone who went, giving them no way to get to safety if they ran into trouble. I'm the only source of unlight, with the possible exception of the Dead Moment - and we're definitely not using that.
Thankfully -
- Four had supplied a solution to both problems.