Chapter 279: Magical Fluids
Sylver Seeker Book 7
Chapter 13 (279) - Magical Fluids
An unexpected function of [Still Water] was that Sylver could go inside it.
He wasn’t brave enough to put in more than a hand in at the moment, but all of his shades could enter and exit the [Still Water] mirror like portal without any issue.
When he completely stopped using the perk and the mirror like “portal” closed, nothing happened to the shade inside.
From its perspective as the “portal” above it was closing and was about to fully disappear, the “portal” reopened instantly. Even though Sylver waited a good half hour before reopening the portal in the puddle, and had given the shade a handful of pebbles to move from one hand to the other in lieu of an hourglass to account for the shade’s inability to perceive time.
Presumably the perk wasn’t freezing time inside the [Still Water] space, just slowing it down close enough to zero seconds per second that the shade he’d left inside wasn’t capable of perceiving the incredibly slow passage of time.
The Ibis’ rule regarding real chronomancy, its use, research, and experimentation, wasn’t a rule as much as it was a suggestion from people far smarter and older than you, that knew better, and by all accounts, if they couldn’t figure it out, a young dumbass like you certainly won’t.
Technically, because the magic fell into the “dark” category Sylver was capable of casting chronomancy… technically…