FICTION
BROKEN TIME:
CHAPTER 3:
DIMINISHING
FRAGILITY
By Jorg van der Velden
Caught between the unraveling timelines that seem to dance and swirl around him, Chronos’ panicked
mind is desperately looking for any form of certainty, however small it might be. Every corner of his psyche is
screaming for the depressing predictability that was his existence a mere couple of days ago. The lord of time no
longer feels he is its master, but its servant, powerless to shape the events and completely at its mercy.
H
e stumbles upon the
the fear, allowing a semblance of
and pendulums that make up
beginning of time in
rationality to return. The paralyzing
the structure of his belfry as he
the rampaging time
thoughts turn into words of
crawls out of the prison that the
lines, and one of the few truly
action, a shimmer of confidence
horror of his discovery created
happy moments in his existence,
filling the empty pit in his chest.
in his thoughts. His limbs slowly
a joyful memory he has forgotten
The churning ribbons of
relax, sore and painful from being
through the ages. The world
time fade from his view, being
rigid and tense in his anxiety.
was still just the world egg, the
replaced by the familiar cogs
Only after fully escaping from the
only conscious beings were him
and Ananke, lady inevitability.
They merged with the world egg,
reveling in the happiness of each
other’s presence and the powerful
act of creation, birthing the
primordial gods that would create
the world and life as we know it.
Chronos latches onto this
memory, this perfect moment, and
fights back against the limbo that
is his scattered, panicked mind.
His desperate grip on the memory
sluggishly but steadily pushes back
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