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The fifth chapter continues the Time Travelers story to the dinner guest, about his travel in the future. So far the Time Traveler has traveled forward in time to a time with very short meek looking creatures that all looked the same way, and lived in very large intricate buildings.

After spending the day in the future and with the creatures, the returns to the Time Machine only to find it missing. He's sure nobody traveled in time with it because he removed the ivory levers and he's also sure the creatures are too weak to move the machine. He returns to their civilization scaring the creatures and frantically asking for his time machine back. The creatures are all terrified of him, then he calms down.

The next morning he tries to deduce the whereabouts of his machine. He figures it couldn't have gone too far away from where he had it last. Since he figured it couldn't have moved far, he suspects it is in the sphinx statue he saw earlier. He tried to break open at the enterence with a rock. When he ask them how to open the pinx that reacted strongly in shock and digust. In an attemp to better understand them, he tries to learn there language and gets to know them better.

He builds a relationship with one of the creatures, name Weena. Weena is affection toward the Time Traveller, and they develop a bond as she shows in him their society.

One morning after spending the day with Weena, the Time Traveller notivces an all white ape like creature which flees quickly. He theorizes that the creature lives undergound due to the way it acted in the sunlight. From a conversation with Weena he learns that her kind is called the 'Eloi', peace loving creactures. And the what the Time Traveler saw was a 'Morlock' savage underground creatures. He tries to ask more questions but Weena because visably upset so he stops.