This chapter investigates a puzzle about our emotions through the lens of two Chiang stories: “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” and “Story of Your Life.” Take grief, a familiar emotion shared by Fuwaad ibn Abbas and Louise Banks, the respective protagonists of these stories. Grief is a fitting response to the world when there is a reason for it, such as the loss of a loved one. Lacking the appropriate amount of grief indicates that something has gone awry. Yet, our emotions change over time even though the underlying reasons for them do not. Grief typically subsides, even though our loved ones are not restored to us. This subsiding seems reasonable, even though the underlying reasons have not changed. We’re thus presented with a puzzle: what could explain the reasonableness of the temporality of our emotions? Chiang’s presentation of Fuwaad and Louise’s experiences of time provide a potential solution to this puzzle—or so I’ll argue.