. . . I don't know. Qri won't answer that. It's possible that she's changed our world's history by bringing us here.

[He thinks of mentioning some of the weirdness of Dirk's world--the possibility that they come from different instantiations of the same universe--but decides that's too complicated for right now.]

She can take us from different points in time from one another, and she has. Shirley comes from one point in time, I come from around three months later than her, and you-- [This is utterly impossible, but there's no other conclusion he can draw. He hasn't even heard of Schwartz.] I believe you must come from even further in the future.