"I couldn't tell you that," I answered, wishing not for the first time that I'd been able to retain more of my memories from when I'd been a spider. Time travel wasn't anything that had ever interested us, so we hadn't given them that problem. I had no doubt, though, that they'd be able to solve it. "But it does seem to happen to some people here. One of the first people I met on the island is from several hundred years before when I came here."