The long-lost Taghrib colony knows their days are numbered because of the deadly flares from their unstable star. So when alien starhoppers hop in for a visit, three colony members (including Aarfa, the dog) leave with them to search for a nearby inhabitable planet where the colony can migrate to.

No actual time travel, but there is a boatload of Yodaspeak about time dilation, which may or may not be familiar relativistic effects of velocity or gravity.
—Michael Main
A dynamic landscape is timespace today.

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  1. “The Tinker and the Timestream”
    by Carolyn Ives Gilman, in Analog, March/April 2023.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Carolyn Ives Gilman