Kyeo doesn't know this game but is amenable to watching sports. If they don't open their packets he won't know what the point of them is, but if they do he'll put them on the burger. Either way he eats it quite contently.

During a commercial break his hosts ask about Ibyabek! They'd never heard of it, is it a secret military base or something?

"No, not at all. I don't know why people I've met on Earth don't seem to have heard of it. Have you heard of any other planets - Kular, or Xeren, maybe - Sohaibek -"

"Not me, but you know, I couldn't name most of the countries in Africa either."

"There's Kenya," says Cherry, "and Nairobi, and Liberia, and South Africa, and Sudan....and Egypt. - I guess I can't name most of them either."

"The settlements on Luna should be visible to the naked eye."

"- well that's weird."

"Wonder if my vision's going."

"Maybe I should check. Teleporting to Earth is weird enough that having also time traveled wouldn't necessarily make it weirder."

"Check if - there's - stuff on the moon?"

"Because," Cherry says, "maybe he's a time-travelling astronaut. And if he time-travelled, then there's stuff on the moon in the future, but - maybe it's not there yet. - Right?"

"Right. And nobody seems to have already heard of Ibyabek, or spaceships in service, so maybe it's time travel."

"Well, that'd sure be something."

"You could be famous."

"I don't especially want to be famous."

"Well that seems awkward if you're a time-traveller but probably if you tell everyone that you don't want to be famous most of them will respect it. I'll tell the guys in the shop that if they get the national media up in our faces about our time traveller, I'll fire them."

"I wouldn't want anyone to be out of a job because of me, at least not on a planet that still uses money."

"Well, it's not like they'd call up the national media by accident. I wouldn't fire them if they just told their cousin who's a reporter over dinner or something."

"I suppose that's your prerogative."

"It's good of you to worry about the boys but they can follow some rules. Makes for a better shop."

"I understand. It's just on Ibyabek we don't use money and everyone has a home and food and medical care and doesn't have to worry about paying for it."

" - wow. I wouldn't really expect that to work. I'd figure you'd get moochers."

"We do have jobs. People on Ibyabek work. But if someone can't, if they're injured or are nursing small children or in school or something, they're provided for."

"Yeah, it makes sense you'd look after those who can't work, but what about, you know, those who're just lazy. Some folks are just lazy. I've had to fire a few who just didn't really want to learn."

"They need to learn better, but threatening them with starvation isn't the way to teach people anything."

"You know, I'd never really thought about it that way."

"It took a very great visionary for things to change on Ibyabek."

"Well, maybe you can tell people here what Ibyabek did and how well it worked."

"I can try, though I don't know as much as I'd like about all the concrete details of how it was implemented from the beginning."