A Meeting of Sorts.

TRIBERIAS,

The Eastern Scaffold,

2420AA, After the Great Ascension.

Time dragged out more slowly in Triberias than anywhere else in the land below or so Havillah had been taught as a child.

Of course, there was evidence to the fact and from what she had gathered from her own research, she had come to deduce that much as well. And so, by the time she had gathered enough courage to wade back to the viewpoint, it was already morning ...