Chapter 359: Epilogue (2)
#4. Room in Lokralen
Epherene lay on the bed, looking up at the ceiling, and in a world where time was frozen—without sound, scent, presence, or motion—it was like a void in space, with Lokralen, filled with time energy, all the more stagnant for it.
Tick, tock— Tick, tock—
Epherene passed the time by counting it in her heart, for if she didn't count it herself, she couldn't sense the time that was flowing within her.
Tick, tock— Tick, tock—
Tick, tock— Tick, tock—
This kind of stasis was enough to make a person go mad, as if she were swimming naked through the empty cosmos and galaxies, suffocated even while breathing, her chest tightening at times as though her throat were entirely blocked.
... However.
“Professor,” Epherene called.
When she spoke his name, a sound was made, and the presence of someone who could uniquely move in that space where everything had stopped spread clearly, and in an instant her loneliness and silence disappeared, the stasis pressing down on her scattered, and her choked breath was released, restoring her vitality.
"Why did you call?" he replied.
With a bright smile, Epherene turned to face him.