The words were heavy.
And they stayed in the space between them like a death sentence.
Khor had dropped this revelation with casualness, then fallen silent as if giving him time to process the end of everything.
She waved her hand with practiced efficiency, and an obsidian field of authority materialized around them…not as a barrier but as something more fundamental.
The space they occupied simply opted out of time's governance.
Prompts materialized in Noah's vision, though they seemed almost mundane compared to what had just been revealed.
|The First Hunger has laid out a small domain of hunger that eats away at time itself|
|No time passes while inside this domain|
|External reality: Effectively Paused|
|Internal reality: Continuing at user discretion|
After establishing this temporal sanctuary, Khor sighed with the weight of someone who had just remembered why they'd chosen to forget.
Even though she didn't really choose…
