It didn’t matter, though, because he stayed true to his word, and the project was finished on time. Six days before the end of the restart, the improved Black Room was done. A large throng of people—time loopers, cult leaders, and the more enthusiastic of the kidnapped researchers—piled into the imperial orb, and then the time dilation was activated.
They would spend the next five months inside the imperial orb. Outside, a single day would pass.
Quatach-Ichl did not join them in the orb, despite helping make it. This was a smart choice on his part, because Zach and Zorian would have killed him the moment the orb was isolated from the outside world and stolen his crown again. Zorian wasn’t sure whether Quatach-Ichl could have escaped back to his phylactery if he was killed inside the pa
