Arrows of Time - Kim Falconer [0]
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Dedication
Maps
Notes On Time
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 1
Earth—Time: Backward Chapter 2
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 3
Tensar—Time: Circular Chapter 4
Earth—Time: Backward Chapter 5
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 6
Tensar—Time: Circular Chapter 7
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 8
Tensar—Time: Circular Chapter 9
Earth—Time: Backward Chapter 10
Gaela & Earth—Time: Forward Chapter 11
Gaela & Earth—Time: Forward Chapter 12
Tensar & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 13
Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 14
Earth—Time: Backward Chapter 15
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 16
Gaela & Tensar—Time: Forward Chapter 17
Earth—Time: Backward Chapter 18
Earth—Time: Forward Chapter 19
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 20
Earth—Time: Backward Chapter 21
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 22
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 23
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 24
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 25
Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 26
Earth—Time: Forward Chapter 27
Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 28
Earth—Time: Forward Chapter 29
Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 30
Earth—Time: Forward Chapter 31
Earth—Time: Forward Chapter 32
Earth—Time: Forward Chapter 33
Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 34
Earth—Time: Forward Chapter 35
Gaela & Earth—Time: Forward Chapter 36
Earth—Time: Circular Chapter 37
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 38
Earth—Time: Backward Chapter 39
Earth & Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 40
Gaela—Time: Forward Chapter 41
Earth & Tensar—Time: Forward Chapter 42
Earth & Tensar—Time: Forward Chapter 42 (Continued)
Earth—Time: Backward Chapter 43
Earth—Time: Forward Chapter 44
Recommended Reading:
Recommended Websites:
The Spell of Rosette
Voyager online
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Books by Kim Falconer
Copyright
About the Publisher
Maps
NOTES ON TIME
The arrow of time runs from past to present to future, never wavering from its track save in memory or speculation. But this is only half the story. Time has a deeper symmetry, and as our experience of time flows one way, somewhere else, in a counter universe, time is going in the opposite direction.
Consider three aspects of time:
Forward Time is what we call normal running time. We experience the directional flow of events from past to present to future. We plant a seed, it sprouts, flowers bloom. We remember the past.
Backward Time is a retrograde motion, not like memory where our thoughts trace events that have already happened, but a timeline that runs anew from future to past. Flowers bloom, the seed sprouts, we plant the seed. We remember the future.
Circular Time repeats itself around and around in a strange loop where repetition—planting or sprouting or blooming—is the only constant. Usually, we are unaware of the cycle. Memory is in the form of déjà vu.
These opposing directions of time are not sensed because we don’t see them side by side. They remain separate, incomparable. The corridors handle that. They keep the timelines running straight, in either direction. If there were a glitch, a sudden juxtaposition of directions so that the full scope of time became observable, words such as past and future would become meaningless, as would life and death.
EARTH & GAELA—TIME: FORWARD
CHAPTER 1
‘Did you hear that?’ Kreshkali turned around in the saddle and squinted at the sun. She flipped the compass closed and tucked it into her pocket. There it was again—a bone-jarring rumble.
‘What is it?’ An’ Lawrence asked.
Kreshkali halted her horse. ‘Sounds like drums,’ she said, pushing damp hair off her forehead. ‘Large ones.’ The horse sidestepped, its neck arched, nostrils flaring. Kreshkali looked at the striated canyon walls. The massive sandstone monuments towered overhead, shaped by erosion and held together with the roots of gnarled scrub oaks and twisted Manzanita. ‘Can you see anything?’ she asked.
An’ Lawrence stood in his stirrups, searching the cliffs. Red rocks and shale were trickling down, gaining momentum as they rushed