"Things in life are a lot simpler than one would always like to imagine."
Sarina muttered those words as she gazed out over the sprawling city below. It was night, the city lights twinkling in every direction, neon signs shining bright.
She sat atop one of its clocktowers, her hair drifting in the wind as her eyes slowly shifted from the lively streets beneath to the night sky above Hodorix.
One might assume that after more than a billion years of searching, she would have countless things to say, and that her conversation with Chrono would stretch on endlessly.
But in truth, it ended far quicker than anyone could have imagined.
'It was simply a life for a life. I saved a life, even if unknowingly, and mine was saved in return.'
That was the simple answer to the billion-year-old question of 'Why?'
But while the reason itself was simple, the consequences of that reason and the action it was behind, were far from simple.
