“What are you saying?” She felt her hackles rising.
“Dear child, why would he restrict himself to tracking time, when his legendary powers might avail him the opportunity to stop time. Or even reverse time. And perhaps to advance time. If I were he and bent on the domination of the existing world, it"s what I would certainly be tempted to do, wouldn"t you?”
Ari met his stare again, and was certain with a conviction that left her nauseous that yes, they were powers that Travert Crepitans Pictor would certainly build into such a device. She also knew with the same force of conviction that she herself wouldn"t want any of those powers.
Neither was she bent on world domination.
But a megalomaniac would certainly apply himself to discover how exactly to do those things, for to command time
