Ahhh, but is it the right TIME? ....sorry. Seriously, though, I get this foreboding sense - like if something’s wrong with a shadowy group that’s supposed to keep linear time, and they miss the appointment THEY designated... something’s not right. I like how things are moving in this first chapter.

What’s going on with this? Is this an alien race or an outlaw faction of time traveling marauders or something? I was hoping for at least a teeny tiny morsel of info to follow. Don’t leave me hanging! :)

Just want to add that I like how the ’ordinary’ folks who DON’T time travel are considered mysterious. Very cool flip to expectations.

Reading the story so far - learning the background of this universe you’re setting up - has already got my head spinning! It’s a good thing, I assure you! You’re tackling a supremely interesting premise (going back and forth through time) and how to keep... I dunno... "government regulations" on that. And here we’re introduced to the Core, whose perspective not only helps the characters keep things straight, I suspect it will help ME, the reader, keep them straight as well. I’m eager to see what this is all about for X.

This is awesome. Just the very concept that Uy could do that, and the way he treats it as almost trivial in this conversation, all of that sets this up really well. Plus, I get the sense that running into some paradox is going to be pretty important later on.