"We're sitting in a place connected throughout time and space. You can open portals. Who says the portals can only open from place to place?"

Time travel of varying kinds beyond the normal isn't unheard of where she's from. People go backward, forward, diagonally, weaving through forgotten pasts and dead futures and sometimes even on purpose. Why couldn't he?

"If you could open a portal through time, you could bring them here."