The first way he made it sound, it was quite scary I would say, like I was going to die after pausing time for almost about twenty minutes in total. Why didn't he tell me about it?, If he had found it irrelevant, then I think I really shouldn't bother about it Since it doesn't really bother him that he happens to forget something as critical as that, guess I do have to worry less then, his silence about it in the first place shows that he believes that I can get past it.
I have been training on holding my breath in the past, and I can do a total of thirty minutes, that would be enough for me to do what I want in a time pause, but maybe I should at least work on it later, get myself to hold my breath for a whole minute, I can possibly do that.
“ So, I believe I have close to three minutes left now, or maybe just two....”
I didn't make it sound like a question, rather it was just an opinion about the time I have for free and how to make use of it, or maybe waste it once, so that next time, I would start getting myself an upgrade in holding my breath for a longer period of time.
“ Or maybe you can just stick around, when you notice you're no longer breathing, then you realize you just ran out of air....” he said, laughing about it. Funny. That's a point though, since he said that this would be our last time meeting face to face, maybe I should just make all the remaining time for him, he was the one who gave me this gift after all, he deserves the time spent on him.
“ So tell me..... Why did you come like this?, you definitely have a reason.....”
“ Or maybe I don't....”
“ LoL..... Don't try to be funny Chronos, I researched about and stuff, this was the outlook I saw on those pictures, you intentionally came trying to resemble the frames and contents made about you, more like it's fun playing with people's opinion of you.....” I made my point clear, definitely checkmating him.
All he did was laugh about it, that's normal for him, always laughing at stuff, whether critical or just a joke. “ That's quite a good sense of humor for a dumb person like you.... You know what Wilfred, I wish it was like that, but no.... One of the things about hoarding time is that it will consume you, and when It does, you're forever stuck, you'll be trapped, trapped in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennium.....”
He was smiling low this time, his wrinkled lips not stretching like always, like this was more of an emotional smile which has pain as backup. “ I don't understand.... Explain better....” all attention on him, wanting to know more in the short time I have left.
I can see the way he took another breath before releasing them, like this was something he never wants to reveal to me, but since he said this would be our last meeting because the next would definitely get me killed and also he answer questions which was been asked rather than the ones I just thought of, he then began to speak.
“ Being trapped in time is something people like us will always want to run from, like being trapped by our own demon, there's no escape and the only way for a temporary freedom is just the way you had found me, getting a part of me to live inside you, that's why the deal mattered more to me than it mattered to you, but looking from your recklessness, I guess it would be as temporary as I said, I would be returning fully back in the time keepers prison in no time, just a matter of days for you and a matter of millenniums for me.
“ I don't understand.....”
“ You see Wilfred....a single second in your world is a day in my prison, if you count it by yourself and realize how many years I spend in prison in just a day of your world, when in your world actually, I have been lost for thousands of years, counting from your timezone, you'll get to understand that few days of freedom around you in your timezone was worth the thousands of years of freedom in mine. So the fact I came as an old man has nothing to do with my decision, it's just me living my life in my timezone, each day that passes in yours, I will get to become young again, then start afresh and begin to...... What is happening to you Wilfred?....”
I was trying to hold my breath because my time was over, so I was trying to stall, putting myself in grave danger like he warned. “ Watch out for the time keeper....”
He snapped his finger, and back in reality I was, falling on the floor, gasping for breath. I can hear people screaming around me, like I just fall out of nowhere into there midst, hiding my face immediately I take in a large amount of air as I could, then paused the time again, almost forgot how people will react when someone just appear out of nowhere in their midst like a fucking ghost, disappearing the same is the best option.
With the breath I have taking in with me, I ran as fast as I could until I got into a half line along the road in between two houses, then restarted the time, fuck me.
Going back home, I know this view, I saw this before, this happened and I know exactly what it was, I ran back into the inner room, the museum blue print was no longer there and secondly, my Mom is back on the floor, struggling for her life like I saw her last time, now I understand exactly what I did, it was that clock in the inner office, I turned it backwards to yesterday so the password I have given them would change, that was a day before today and now, everything was now repeating itself and I wasn't able to save my Mom again.