"You know the wigglies are going to try to get in as soon as I turn this thing on, right?"

"We don't know that for sure."

"Yeah but -

"But it's a good guess," says Kendra. "I think I have all the ways in blocked, but I'll try to be quick."

She breathes out then rolls her shoulders. "Come on, lets do this before I lose my nerve."

"Oh! Right! - Wait."

"What?"



"I just want to - I mean - I - look, if we're going to do this…"

Crap!

Bina started this sentence with the best of intentions, but it's running away on her.

Sentence fragments babble out, nothing connecting. "You just spent - like, I mean - I went to sleep and you spent like two hours protecting me from monsters, alone, and you built a time machine and you didn't even mention how weird the journal is and - I'm just this crazy girl you met and - look - even if this doesn't work…"

She trails off.

Kendra looks at her.

She will not blush. She won't.

The silence stretches. Kendra starts to say, "Uuhh -

She can't leave it like that! She cuts her off, "You're kind of amazing. OK? I'm just saying."

She can't look at Kendra.



"Come on! Lets do this!"