"Temporal magic has a quality that most practitioners describe as weight," she said, as they moved through the forest's early section. "Not physical weight. More like the sensation of being near something very old — not aged, but old in the sense that it has been part of the world for a long time and the world has accommodated it. The way ancient trees feel different from young ones even when you're not touching them."
"I've felt something like that," Satou said. "From Malakor. From the directional sense itself."
"The directional sense is the strongest ambient temporal signature in your experience," Morgana confirmed. "Which is useful as a baseline. As we approach what Chronus has built, the ambient field will develop that quality independently of the directional sense — as a background texture to the environment rather than as a specific directional pull. Learning to read that texture will tell us things about the working's state that the directional sense alone can't provide."
