[quote=@Tatterdemalion][b]Adila![/b]

Ten, eleven, twelve.

Thirteen.

That is the lesson of the Dragon’s Clock, its method and its means. It was made for you by devils, perhaps not you in the specific, but for the dragon who would be standing here right now. Time and dragons and old stories, clocks and time woven from the hungry void at the beginning of everything, with this moment and this place as its anchoring point.

What came next? What did you do in the moments just beyond this one, this slivering, this fire-on-the-heart?[/quote]

There's some deep dark instinct, even still, that says: Hoard! You've learned a secret and now it's yours. There's a kind of pleasure that goes with letting thoughts pass unarticulated, in keeping your head closed and your secrets closed - a feeling that makes board games and bargain shopping and shadowy lurking feel right. But Adila has been raised better; all along the thread of time is the lesson that the nature of humanity is to share information. 

If she wants to fit into this community - and she does, and she's surprised how permanent that thought feels even on the brink of all this change - then it is her duty to share what she knows.

+Master, I have an observation on the nature of time,+ she said, approaching the Clockmaster.