With time travel necessary for the continuation of life on earth, a teenage girl undertakes her first assignment, leaving the comforts of the midwest for the Institute through a closed timelike curve to a musical adventure in Victorian England. Can she uncover the people and ideas necessary to complete this crucial assignment? In this first part of the future's plan to save humankind, Sal is an extraordinary woman on the way to understanding how ideas can set people free, as well as understanding herself. Open for comments or suggestions - very much a work in progress - will post more when written :)

Walking the streets of Long Island at night has proven to be very dangerous. All she needed was a half gallon of milk to make her best friend a last minute celebration cake for them finally getting into NYU. Jonah (the best friend) goes out looking for her, only to see she's been mugged and left for dead. Jonah finds himself in a sticky situation. How is he going to confess his feelings to his best friend when she doesn't even know who he is? How much harder is it going to be when she doesn't remember her own name? Will Jonah be able to fill in the blanks in time for his big reveal?