Keeping their conversation hush-hush, as much as they could in the circumstance, Chronos explained his circumstances to Astaroth, giving as much detail as he could recall. After an hour of talking, they had gone around the subject, and Astaroth felt it was time for him to share a secret of his own.
"I figure it's my turn to share. So I will tell you a closely guarded secret. One that could put me in trouble if it came out to the wrong people. At least for now."
Chronos looked at him for a moment, wondering what his guild leader was about to tell him.
"Our powers aren't limited to New Eden. I don't know if you tried experimenting outside the game, but we can access all our powers in from here, in our world, with enough practice."
Chronos wanted to feel surprised. His heart fluttered for a mere moment.
But somewhere inside of himself, he had already felt this was the truth. There were times when, outside of the game, he felt like time wasn't functioning properly around him.
