(Meanwhile, inside the Time Stilled World, Amanda's POV)
Only five days had passed for Leo in the wider universe, yet over five hundred had passed for Amanda since she first entered the Time-Stilled World.
As one of the first entrants into the realm alongside Supreme Master Argo, she had been here through it all—through the silence of the first days when the city still felt hollow and haunted, to the extreme bustle now, where even walking two steps without bumping into someone felt like a challenge.
In just five hundred days, the Time-Stilled World had become the heart of the Cult's survival, the last refuge of its people, as all the Cult's brightest minds and highest priority evacuees were sent here to make the place as liveable as they could for the next batch.
*Step*
*Step*
*Step*
