Everyone on the continent no, all life, or all existence, is time-dependent. Every existence is bound by time and is based on time. Life is about getting time, and death is the end of that given time. Therefore, time is an absolute bond that entangles even the smallest natural object

Epherene was not included in the providence of nature, as she was not subject to time, nor constrained. She was a mutant drifting away from the line of time that no one else could escape from. She belonged to interval, not time.

The beginning of that interval was the moment Sophiens Regression entered her. And the end of that interval was the operation of the Lighthouse. In other words

The destruction of the continent. An end existed, and Epherene was repeating the time between the beginning and the end of that interval infinitely. You know, like the repeat button on a music player. Epherene had already spent decades alone.

Rustle

She was somewhere in the empire. A fetid wind blew through the city center, sending a pile of newspapers fluttering around her ankles. Epherene lifted one with only a glance.

[Commander of the Imperial guard, Deculein, on the verge of being kicked out.]

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