===Chrono Night===
~ ۩†The Story†۩~
Time; it isn’t the way people think it is. People assume time is a straight progression from cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear non-subjective viewpoint, it is more of a big ball, like a whole universe within our universe, existing with the one we see, the stuff we touch, but totally apart from our reach. You are made to think the past or the future are some ways away and you’d be right, typically. However, no system is perfect, much less impermeable. What you don’t know is that each decision that takes you to the future only takes you to the next page as it were. There is such a fine line to bring you right back, but seeing it, that’s the difficulty most face and that’s what we like to see.
Back to the imperfections then, eh? Certain people are “sensitive” to fluctuation in time. Originally, no one was aware of these individuals and it was believed, even by they themselves, that an item was necessary. After the fall of Lavos, the term applied to that item was coined for naming these unique persons.
Following the first series of imperfections, the solution was to force continuity, a haphazard answer. The universe had a contingency plan in mind. There was fracture; the unacceptable changes in progression were pushed into that extra universe, bulking it up. The instability developed brought a struggling Lavos into the Darkness Beyond Time, a dead space between universes. There it literally fed on existence, what makes possibility possible. Eventually, this would have caused collapse; the internal support would weaken and structure would be lost. Instead, the sensitive individuals were called upon and rewove the splintered realities into something acceptable. The universe was appeased and function proceeded, allowing time then to begin smoothing the lingering fluctuations.
Fluctuations such as cross-dimensional existence, however, were a bit more complicated. Rather than automated reparations, the solution was delegated to the existence herself, though that hardly performs without glitch. Growing pains spilled into more dimensions and created a blending, a breakage between the boundaries of individual layers of continuance. Further, negative wills began to unravel plot and purpose eventually culminating in new fracture, though varied from the preceding. In place of the singular universal fork, this version took on minor faults in multiple derivations. Reality went unknowing of these anomalies, mending itself with what patches it now had.
Incongruous beings manifested from the workings of divergent origins lapsing into comprehendible identities, which, driven to madness and/or egocentrism, began adopting defined roles and mannerisms to divvy the nonsensical terrain. Extended periods with such aggravated and aggravating wounds produced dominions and subsequent inhabitants. The collective sect of sires assembled into acolytes to their commonality. Innately, almost inherently, they congregated upon the former kingdom of Zeal, rebuilt it, and designated it their center, dubbed New Zeal.
One existence held a strong influence over the events following fracture, another a mere puppet, and a third was only then arriving. The puppet played no significant role anymore though presence alone was suitable enough. The influential one had all the acolytes under thrall, but the subjective nature of the dominions cast many astray. They united in tribes as opposition to the hostile acolytes and their megalomaniacal orchestrator. The universe steadied with this path, expecting the corrections to be made as necessary.
That is where we currently stand, awaiting the proper editing of reality’s appointed.
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