FICTION
walks around the ornate chair. “Have you made any
with the disintegration of what he has always held
progress on the case, significant or otherwise?”
as something unchangeable, he clenches both
“I have,” Chronos answers flatly as he pulls out
his hands into fists to retain his composure.
two cogs from his abdomen, commanding them
The other ribbons adjust themselves to those
to hover a couple of feet in front of the Master of
he viewed over and over again, one of the scene of
Portals. With a wave of his hand the clock hands
the crime and one of the little cyclops wandering
that make up his wings come off and float towards
through the jungle, repeating them over and over
the cogs, forming a line, largest to smallest,
again. Janus is strangely quiet as they both watch
underneath them, “and the deceit is even bigger than
the void of the broken ribbons continuously pass
imagined,” the Lord of Time continues as he moves
by, returning to the sight of Rama landing after his
around to stand beside the seated Roman deity.
shots, an empty jungle and the dead little boy.
With a wave of his staff three ribbons of time
appear in between the hands and cogs, slowly
solidifying as they’re pulled from the void. Each
ribbon shows Rama in one of the defining moments
of his legend; exiling himself, his burst of rage at
“
There is not enough
blood for the cyclops
to be murdered
where he is found.
Varuna, the Lord of Oceans, and him ascending
to the throne of Ayodhya. As each moment loops
before the primordials, the Greek starts explaining.
“It was Rama who fired the arrow.” His already
”
“But he isn’t the murderer,” Chronos finally
says through clenched teeth, breaking the tense
silence briefly. The rage of the betrayal makes his
somber voice grew even darker as he changed
entire body tremble, including the cogs and hands
one of the ribbons with a flick of his wrist, the
that hold up the ribbons. He desperately holds on
moments of Rama practicing before the timeline
to the memories in an attempt to calm himself.
disintegrated coming into view. Still uncomfortable
He needs to explain the betrayal, it needs to be
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