They spent their next few days in the year 1900 living with Tarzan Jane and Tora, and tried to adapt to their surroundings, without the help of their modern technology that had been left behind in the thirtieth century. Various notes of progress were sent back using the time machine, displaying hastily scrawled messages like "Nearly there" and "Almost got it now", as if the people back at the lab were scared that Tarl's head would suddenly pop up through the machine, and start yelling at them for not working hard enough to bring them back. On the contrary, in fact, Tarl was having the time of his life back in the past with Tarzan, who was more than eager to show him all the flora and fauna of the jungle. While he scurried around collecting specimens, Jane, who had finally come to terms with the person who made it appear that a mirror was constantly following her around, Janet, and engaged themselves in long conversations about life in the year 3000. The only people who were not happy, infact, were Tora and Torrance. Tora disliked the way that all Torrance had to do to get her own way with Janet and Tarl was to scream real loud, and regarded her as a spoilt brat who needn't be bothered with. Torrance simply hated Tora because Tora hated her. Torrance also wasn't getting on well with Jungle life; more out of spite than anything else, she refused to eat the fruit that everyone else ate, and so food packages had to be sent back to them aswell. This was only to the delight of Jane though, who got to try spaghetti, ice cream, fish fingers, chips, crisps (They knew what happened if Tora wasn't constantly supplied with sugar) Most of which things she had never tried in her life, and certainly not since she had come to live in the jungle.

       Jane noticed, though, a change in Tora's mood from being stuck looking after Torrance. She had become grouchy and snappish, much like Torrance herself. She and Janet decided that if they didn't want Tarl's horror of having two Torrances to come true, they had to get the girls to make friends. Easier said than done. The only way Jane could see was to try and get them to spend time together, but that was certainly not working. Never the less they kept trying.

       "Um, Tora dear," Ventured Jane pleadingly. "Why don't you take Torrance to that cliff you like to jump off with Terk. I'm sure you'll have lots of fun, and you can also show her how brave you are." She continued, trying anything to make her agree. Tora didn't like the idea of breaking the tradition that was that it was her's and Terk's drop, but proving that she had the guts to jump off the top of a eighty-foot cliff certainly did appeal to her.

       "Okaaay Mom." She said, trying to make it sound like it was the last thing she wanted to waste her time on, but really she couldn't wait to see the look on Torrance's face, when she asked her to jump off the top of a cliff. She thought about how she was going to go about this, because she couldn't simply invite Torrance to come with her. She formulated a plan in her mind.

       "Well, I'm going to go jump into the lake now," She said loudly. "I bet Torrance would be to scarred though. She'll just have to stay here with her mom and miss out on all the fun." She glanced at Torrance. She had heard.

       "What makes you think I'd be scarred of jumping into a lake?" She said, coming over and glaring at Tora.

       "Oh, just that theres an eighty-foot drop to jump. Your right, though, no biggie." Torrance gulped, but there was no way out of it now.

       "I'm not scarred. I've jumped off much higher things than that." She lied.

       "Well come on then, show me." Said Tora, smirking inwardly. She led the way through the forestry, until they came to a high cliff ledge, produding out over a vast blue lake, which lay rippling and sparkling a long way down beneath them. Torrance gulped again, but wasn't going to chicken out infront of Tora.

       "Go on then, jump. Show me how good you are, then I'll show you that I'm better." She said.

       "Fine with me." Said Tora. She walked back along the ledge a few paces to give herself a good run-up, then sprinted forwards and leapt out over the edge. Torrance watched her as she sped downwards, then saw the water erupt around her as she landed and sunk. She saw her tiny head surface above the water, then squinted as she watched her making her way to the edge of the lake, getting out, and then disappearing into the undergrowth, what looked like many miles below her. She waited, nerves knotting up, for about ten minuets, until Tora arrived.

       "You were quick." She remarked.

       "Not give you enough time to think of an excuse, did I?" Taunted Tora. Torrance felt herself reddening.

       "I've…decided…not to jump from here." She said hesitantly. Pointing, she gestured towards another ledge about fifty feet further around the gorge. "It looks…higher to me." It was actually considerably lower, but she pretended that it was her mistake. There was a thin ridge running around the cliff between the two ledges, and Torrance proceeded to edge her way along it, taking as much time as possible, and trying not to look down. She hovered now, over a small strip of land where the water didn't quite meet the cliff base. If she were to fall, she would die. She glanced down and suddenly had a panic attack. She couldn't breathe! Her foot slipped, and knocked away some of the loose soil beneath her feet, which crumbled. She screamed and grabbed for a branch, just as the rest of her platform broke away from the cliff.

       "Tora…help me!" She choked, gasping for air, dangling over a sheer drop to the ground. Tora had already sprung into action. As much as she disliked the girl, she didn't want her to die. She scaled the cliff face nimbly, pulling herself up onto a ledge above Torrance, and looked around for something…like a vine! She grabbed it and lowered it down to where Torrance was suspended, holding on to a branch that was quickly giving way under her weight.

       "Here, grab this!" She yelled. Letting go with one hand, Torrance made a mad swipe for the vine. The branch cracked threateningly. She caught it on the second try, and let go of the branch. It sprung back, but the momentum created was all that was needed to dislodge it from the crumbly soil. It fell past her, as she held on tightly, to scared to pull herself up. Tora, fortunately, had spent her life swinging around on vines supporting her own weight, and was considerably stronger than Torrance, who had spent her life developing the muscles in her thumbs and voice box. With one last haul, she dragged the girl over the edge and onto solid ground. They sat for a while to get their breath back.

       "Tora…why did you do that?" Gasped Torrance finally.

       "What, didn't you want me to save you?" Tora replied.

       "Don't be stupid…it's just…I thought you hated me." She said.

       "Well, ya but, I didn't want you to die." Said Tora. Torrance smiled weakly.

       "I think it would be a bit difficult to hate you, now though, don't you think?" She said.

       "Truce then?" Said Tora holding out her hand.

       "No, more than that. Friends sounds much better to me." Said Torrance. She stood up and took Tora's outstretched hand, pulling her up.

       "Thanks…Torrance." She said, smiling back. Torrance grinned. She put her arm over Tora's shoulder.

       "So Tora ma man, there has to be much more interesting things in this big ol' jungle you haven't shown me yet."

       "Oh, yeah, of course. How else do ya think I kept myself occupied all my life." She said as they walked back in the direction of the treehouse.