It was important to remember that I was deciphering one of my shards of lightning by using my domain as a reference, since each shard was a facet of my domain, and all of this exploration and mysteries were on a single shard… What about the other eight?
At the beginning, when I was observing my consciousness frozen inside my domain, I believed I had been stopping time; after all, that was the only conclusion I could draw from the evidence before me.
It is a seductive reading to be sure; when time stops, it is the ultimate form of magic as I knew it. Nothing moves, nothing propagates, nothing decays, and anyone I trap in my domain experiences no time.
If Master Halloway had not been in my head, I would have written that consciousness was stopped in time in my note, and everything after would have been built on a lie.
Two things stopped me from falling fully into this trap.
