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What about when you initially acquired it?
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This may come as a shock, but after I forcibly compressed the thing down to size, it solidified, crystalized, and stabilized. And I held time in the palm of my hand. It was a crystalline object about the size and shape of a dagger, or large icicle. Roughly.