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[dubia_lux]

I wonder sometimes if there is any merit to the idea that our fair City is merely the event horizon of a black hole.

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[inshiningkevlar]

Time would move slower, were it a black hole. Unless you are speaking, ah, what is that word? Allegorically?

[dubia_lux]

Mostly allegorically, yes, but also somewhat literally...

We cannot say how, precisely, time moves in the City. We are a giant clock-One that has been rewound at least once.

[inshiningkevlar]

I have heard that when we return to our worlds, it is at the precise moment that we left? I would almost think it the other way around, if that is true. Though I've no way of knowing.

A clock? That explains perhaps the ticking?

[dubia_lux]

All we know about black holes in my world is that we know almost nothing. We have many theories but little knowledge since nothing has ever passed beyond an event horizon and come back to us to explain what happened.

If you take Reed's statement "that nothing should be happening and/or everything should be happening at the same time" then that may apply to the City. That there is in fact no real time as we understand it in this place. No time will pass outside even if we spend what may feel like months or even years here. Saaa~I don't mean to seem like I know a great deal about this subject. Back home becoming a quantum singularity was not exactly a concern of mine.

...Yes, you hear a ticking because of the Clock. The buildings are arranged like numbers on a clock face, the carousel is the center. If you go into the Underground you will find the clockwork.

[inshiningkevlar]

Knowledge is power here as it is with any other place. Thank you for sharing your theories with me.

Inventive design. You say it has been rewound? For what purpose?

Ah. Forgive me - my name is Sanya. I am, as they say, a 'new arrival'.

[dubia_lux]

...I am not sure. It was before my time. I suppose people were worried the clock was counting down to something terrible.

A pleasure, Sanya. Please call me Ryuzaki.

[inshiningkevlar]

All clocks count down to death, I suppose it is a viable assumption to make.

Ryuzaki? There are many Japanese here. Ah, 'Yoroshiku', then.

[dubia_lux]

Yoroshiku-san.