Titans of Chaos

She said, "Sister, a world where time flows in one direction only is a world where sins cannot beundone before their commission, and effect cannot precede cause! It is a world of terror, wheresorrow is absolute, and death comes to all. How can you hope to return to us?"

I said, "Even now, another version of me meets with Father in the shining hall of all-knowing,where the energy of omniscience has been compressed into the mirrored substances on which histwenty-dimensional throne-world sits. That version was, is, and always shall be recently returnedfrom the horrid capture I must suffer, if those who suffer more than I are to be saved. From thatpoint of view, all this has been accomplished; all the horror is a distant memory."

"From that point of view!" she exclaimed. "Have you forgotten that, from that point of view, youwill be trapped, and all this glory be forgotten: From that frame of reference, years and centuriesmust pass, and you must crawl, one second per second from past to future. You cannot imaginewhat the dark world is like: No! You cannot limit your imagination enough to imagine the limits."

I reached out with my own crosier, which was of gold, and took a box of folded eternity from ashelf in my chambers to bring it into this scene, where it retroactively had always been. Fromwithin the box, I drew out a garment of time, ten thousand years woven into a shining dress,delicate as dew, bright as the rosy dawn.

"Here!" I said. "Ten subjective millennia I will interpose between 'now' and the point at which Imust depart. Join me in my frame of reference, and to us it will seem a century of centuries beforemy captivity begins. Do not weep. How can any sorrow be here, in a world where infinity,morality, eternity, are known and understood, and the light of the Primal Singularity illumes thesegmented spaces of Myriagon, and the Hours wait on the King our father as his handmaidens?"

She said, "One of those Hours is already selected as your escort whose soft hands will lead youdown the funnel of moral-energy and across the event horizon of the Inner Dimensions. Saturnhimself will have been overthrown by the time you pass within the plenum of the enemy!"

I saw her take thoughts from her inner nature, and I saw the way she manipulated space to createa fold, or lapse. She did it right in front of me. It was the basic geometry of how to use the fourthdimension to lapse the third.