She looked at each of them in turn. "He moved eighty thousand people this time, not thirty. He has had three months specifically dedicated to this preparation, where Ashvale's working — judging from what I saw — had taken years but without the kind of focused intensity Chronus is currently applying."
"Which means," Satou said slowly, "he's further along, faster, than he was at Ashvale."
"I believe so," Morgana said. "I cannot be certain. But everything I know points toward that conclusion."
Loki put his head in his hands for a moment. Not dramatically — just the brief, human gesture of someone absorbing something too large to process standing upright.
"Why didn't Malakor tell us this," he said. "If he was part of the coalition that stopped it. He sat across that table and told us this was a personal matter between us and Chronus. He knew what Chronus was capable of building, and he said nothing."
