A young man feels growing anxiety from a long shift at an orbital station. He starts a diary and writes the story of his dog, who was given to another family, from which she later ran away. He is distracted by an equipment emergency stop siren. The hero goes to fix the problem, where he is struck by an attack of inspiration inside. He fantasizes about the life of his little girlfriend, and at this time a disaster occurs at the orbital station. A sudden burst of creativity gives the hero the confidence to set out on a journey, but he does not know that a timeless writer from the future helped him in this.