She can help - though if her companion could do that faster, this might be a good opportunity for Bellona to take a break...

They'll only be walking more after, so yeah.

The machines here seem pretty bad at climbing - she can set up a little camp, hide it more with alchemy, at the top of that outcropping over there? And then eat something more substantial than random foraged berries, maybe take a nap.

Fine by her.

"I promise I won't get into any trouble while you're gone."

"Don't blow up the fuckin' forest, yeah?"

"I won't set it on fire, either."

"Even better."

Giggle!

"See you later, then."

"See ya." And she takes off into the woods.

Bellona takes some time to gather food that'll benefit from processing (rather than being eaten on the go), then clambers up the rock face. She makes a nice little cave/ depression with alchemy and starts a minimum-smoke fire to roast her assorted root vegetables. 

She takes a little cat nap while it's running, and if nothing interrupts her by the time she finishes eating, another longer nap - pretty much until something catches her attention, or A2 returns.

She'll manage about a night's worth of sleep by the time A2 vaults up to her cozy little cave, then.

Plenty for her!

She wakes up as A2 approaches, snapping pretty quickly to full awakeness. "How'd exploring go?" (She wastes no time starting on breakfast.)

"There's more outposts scattered around. Center of the ring is maybe a couple days away at your pace."

"That's pretty far... How far is it at your pace?"

Shrug. "A few hours."

Hmmm... "There's gotta be a more efficient way to do this..." She gets her notebook and pencil out - "The transdimensional array should be generalizable, though we still haven't solved the need for anchors - but that should be minimized with intra-world transit - especially since the real-space is traversable and appropriately designed anchors can be dropped - hmmm, given Two's work with general relativity - don't want to fuck with the time dimension or cause any exciting relativistic effects, so I'd need to account for at minimum a lightspeed delay, but..." Mumble mumble math. "There's that soul anchor..." More mumbling. 

"What the fuck are you talking about?"

" - Uh. Do you want the executive summary, the explanation, or the scientific explanation?"

"How about we keep it short."

"So - I can more or less teleport, but I've only solved that for moving between universes - and I need an anchor at the other side first. Solving it for within-universe movement should be relatively easy? The issues are mostly with the anchor."

"Fuckin' incredible."

Giggle! And teeny tiny blush. "The anchor issue is a pretty big one - it pretty much has to be either a person or a very specific type of item, and if the item kind gets damaged there's a high risk for alchemical backlash - and I'm not sure I can replicate anchoring on a person, my sister managed to anchor on me but that was a special case... Plus I wouldn't know automatically when to activate the array, if it's safe to do so at a predetermined time, etcetera. There's another option that's differently risky, might be a lot smoother - I can, uh, basically teleport just my body to a specific slightly offset universe? Attach my soul to something real-side, ideally something I can use as a body though 'a small doll' would probably be ideal for just transport, since you could carry me - and then use myself as my anchor when I activate the array to summon my body."

It was one of Two's many dead ends for rescuing herself - it would've worked great, if any of them had gotten desperate enough to attach their soul to an anchor and throw it through the Gate and hope they survived the trip with their minds intact (Two thought that should have spat them back out of the Gate into a non-looped timeline - hopefully Bellona Final's, but there'd been a really high risk of coming out at a random other time their Gate was opened, and timetraveling into their own past would've been significantly worse - after which they could've summoned their body; temporarily attaching their souls to appropriately prepared objects is at least already solved, and the transit is a simplified and genericized version of the dimensional transit array).

" - Though there'd be other options if you could use alchemy..." 

"Uh huh. So go back to the part where this is somehow more efficient than just using your own damn legs?"

"It's both quicker and uses less energy."