The two Rare Time Gu lay bound at Noah's feet in THE Infiniverse's many-colored chains, their violet wings dimmed, their long lures trembling, and he reached down to take them.
And yet...
He never touched them!
A moment before anything happened, Ruination went rigid!
Her crimson beams had been drifting lazily across the purple clouds, reading the spin of the time-disks and the slow currents between them, and all at once they locked in place. The script at her collar and wrists flared bright. The endless text scrolling through her eyes stopped scrolling, and held on a single thin line that had just appeared at the far edge of everything she could see.
"Master," she said.
Her voice was as level as ever, but it came quickly, and Ruination never spoke quickly.
"There is a branch. Point zero zero zero three percent. It should not be possible for it to..."
It should not be possible, but...it happened anyway.
The Provenance of Time came down on them like a falling sea!
