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FICTION

WHEN WORLDS
COLLIDE: PART 2

By Jessica Seney

Time is a strange thing. Many people hazard creation? Conflicting tales echo from Greek halls,
guesses at how it worked, how it began, even some claim he had always been there, born from

how it moved forwards. Rivers, paths, unending twists the time that the first titan’s inhale, others claim he

and turns, everything had been guessed yet none had only came to be when humans were created. And yet

been confirmed. The simplest reason for this: no one others still claimed he simply. . . appeared, one day.

could see the future and how events lead up to it. No Created the universe with the ever moving cogs of

one could see the flow or reason of how it worked. time. In truth Chronos was born upon the first tick of

time, and from there learned so much by watching.

Except for Chronos. His patience was legendary, but even he knew when

action must be taken, and now was one such time.

Chronos had been there, ever watching, ever Already his staff - truly small gears from the

toiling to ensure that time never hit a single hitch in outer rims of the eternal clock - glowed from

its constant ticks, never a single stall in the motions, activation, watching the approaching figures move

and never a single second left unspoken for. His ever closer. He knew the forms well, he had been

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