The tome of Ribikune composed by the Medruceke Elders of ancient Thifwit has this to say on the subject of the nature of "time": “The perception that time progresses in a linear way from past to future is an illusion. Time is, in fact, a solid state of all occurrence simultaneously at once. When observed with accuracy, typical beings possessing sentient sapience find time nauseating.” Sidwell Thorne was, by chance, not such a being.