Benny's friend Anderson is late for lunch, and when she looks for him, she finds him at the library, admiring a Jeillo researcher. Anderson sends Benny over to the man, whose name is Porl, and eventually Benny and Porl begin a relationship. Porl is a temporal anthropologist, and he enthusiastically tells Benny about a civilisation whose members had the ability to time travel within their own timelines. They apparently used this ability to learn more and more about their loved ones, in order to have a "long perfect memory" of their loved ones.