I am not part of your idea of time, the Chamber
told her. . . . You mortals are like fish swimming
in a globe of glass. That globe is your world.
You do not see beyond it.

I am all around that globe, everywhere at once. I am in your yesterdays and tomorrows just as I am in your today, and it all looks the same to me. I only know you will find yourself in that one’s path. When you do, you must stop him. He perverts life and the living. That must not continue. Its tone changed; later, Kel would think the thing had been disgruntled . I thought you would like the warning.

Kel crossed her arms over her chest, disgusted. “So you don’t know when I’ll see that piece of human waste. The Nothing Man. Blayce. Or that warrior of his, what’s his name? Stenmun.”

No.

“And you don’t know where they are.”

Your ideas of countries and borders are meaningless to me.

“But you thought I’d be happy to know that the one who’s making the killing devices, who’s murdering children, will come my way. Sometime. Someplace.”