I spent hours reading articles, finding things, anything that relates to Chronos, the unknown god mistaken for another, I googled, researched on different websites, looking to hear people's opinions about the god of time, but everyone seems to be making the same content, mistaking him for another, the more I dive deep into this research, the more confused I become, as well, the less information becomes valuable.
Guess I will need some time outside, might help me out to relax my head, maybe find a way to reach him again, he said he was in me, that we're now part of each other, but why can't he see the turmoil I am in trying to figure him out?, Or possibly, he's intentionally shutting me out, never wanted to tell me about him even before we possibly merged in.
I would've said if he doesn't want to be of any help, I would then go into my own research, but haven done that for hours already and still stuck in the same spot, I believe I have to really confront him for this.
I sat still, folding my legs and hands resting on my knees like I was meditating, trying to reach out to him. I tried relaxing my mind, searching within myself to find him, but it's just a total waste of time.... time?, Oh fuck me, how the fuck didn't I know it has something to fucking do with time just like the last time.
With just the thought of it, everything stopped moving, I still can't believe that I am the one doing this, though I haven't made anything out of it yet, but it's just cool possessing the greatest of all power, the power beyond human understanding.
“ I know you're now present here, just show yourself Chronos, stop playing the hide and seek game with me.....”
I said, talking to myself, but his presence was felt around and I know it. “ I know you're dumb, but quite a surprise to see you figure it out....” I heard the voice speak, and gently, I make out his frame sitting right before me. This time, it wasn't the little boy, instead, a man, an elderly man, an aged man, the center hair all fallen, only the sides remained and they seem to be quite long and taken care of, white beard which traveled down to his chest level, and face with wrinkles, so aged like a man struggling for Life.
“ You could always show up as a young little boy if you want, coming to me aged wouldn't make me show more respects because I saw an elderly man.....”
I made the jokes, I made it sound mean and serious, but the results were the same, he was smiling like he did find it funny. “ We should take a walk, an old man needs to stretch his body....” he was saying one word after the other. I definitely want to see the outspoken younger him.
“ You see Wilfred..... I'm breaking the rule being here, and in other words, putting you in danger.....”
“ What do you mean by that?....” I asked.
“ You see..... Once the connection is complete and the deal sealed, you're now on your own, but the fact you can possess the time mean that I am in you, that doesn't guarantee meeting me again, it's more like separating the heart from the body, the body will die after some seconds or maybe a minute or two.....”
“ So that means to say like this was some kind of a heart transplant maybe, like my original heart was taken away and I now live because of you?....”
“ You can say it like that Wilfred, it sounds best coming from your own mouth....”
“ Then how long do I have now to get what I am here for?.....”
“ Don't bother, since the time is on hold, you might possibly last for longer than the given time, maybe five minutes between us here..... It's usually a twenty minutes total during time pause, but we seemed to use almost fifteen of those minutes the last time, so you barely have five minutes to live peacefully during time pause.....”
He was putting on a smile as he said those words, making me wonder whether he's just trying to pull my legs or something. “ I guess we should then jump into the reason why I am here, but before that, what happens after the twenty minutes time pause is over?.....”
“ The time keeper..... The time keeper starts hunting you.”
He was staring into my face, his own looking too serious this time, like he was making no jokes, like jokes over, now in real talk. I was silent, processing what he just asked and trying to figure out the next question, having realized that time is against me too, like my own power is also hunting me, I then asked.
“ Can you explain better?....”
He was staring for some moments before bursting out of laughter, coughing in between, pretending to be a really old man, he shouldn't blame me for that, he was the one who decided to come to me like this. After gently hitting his chest, trying to cool down the heavy cough, he then spoke.
“ Don't worry much about it Wilfred, there's nothing to panic about that, it's just like playing games, when you're about to proceed, there would be tutorials to guide you, that's what the twenty minutes of time pause serve, but after then, you can protect yourself...... It's just like taking a breath before going underwater, you'll live by your breath, swim as deep as your breath can take you, then surface when you have none left, that's called survival mode, when you also want to get into a time pause, know that you'll take in a lot of air for your lungs to carry, then do what you want, then get the time running again immediately you ran out of breath....”