PART 1 — The Measure
“It doesn’t count time.”
“Not seconds…”
“Not minutes…”
“It measures something else.”
“The Lilycore Hourglass waits… for truth.”
PART 2 — The Change
“It never looks the same.”
“Sometimes it flows like sand.”
“Sometimes… like liquid.”
“Sometimes it barely moves at all.”
“It changes depending on what’s coming.”
“But it never tells you what.”
PART 3 — The Delay
“You think you have time.”
“You watch it slow…”
“Almost still…”
“So you wait.”
“You tell yourself it’s not ur