Here is the post where timescales are discussed:
https://www.unseenservant.us/forum/view ... 16#p639516
We don't have time to return in the two weeks specified.
Alternatively we were asked to stop the problem within 22 days and return within 28 days. We've used up half of those 22 days, so we don't have time to go back and return.
So the only real option is to continue and try and solve the issue, and find some more rations.