Some 18,000 centuries in the future, one remaining being from the past looks after the
animals and artifacts in the zoo where They keep Their collectables including Ruth, a
reflective and naive woman of the long-lost past.
Having conquered Time and Space, They have now returned to them, as children do to
long-forgotten toys. The collectors of string, match-boxes, old bottle-caps, have finally
inherited the earth, and the City, built in the first star-reaching flush of power, has
now become a dusty antique shop stuffed with every period Man ever knew. People in queer
costumes parade the streets; the Old Vehicles Club has outings along SP@ Ave. (and only
They, who can control time and motion, could keep Anglo-Saxon carts and Hexabiles from
the 4th archy going at the same pace.)