"Time Crash Redux" - Part Two
Part Two Chronophage. The word echoed …ancient…hungry. It didn’t fully appear. It suggested itself. A distortion shaped like something watching. Edges that never stayed still. A silhouette made of missing moments . It unfolded into the room—not stepping, not entering. Just… being there . A towering silhouette of shredded darkness and flowing time-fragments, its body unraveling into strands that didn’t obey physics. Its ‘face’: a spiraling vortex…a collapsing storm of light and void. “Oh, man,” Rania gasped. “Just when I think I’ve seen it all in the Infinite DC!” Thomas staggered. “…I—can’t—focus on it—” “Yeah,” Chu Hyun said. “That’s because it’s not entirely here.” Rania steadied Thomas instantly, one hand on his shoulder. “Don’t try to see it.” Chu Hyun stepped closer to him—instinctively protective, though she masked it with irritation. “Chronophages exist between seconds. They don’t move through time—they feed on it.” Thomas swallowed. “Feed on what exactly?” She looked at him. ...