It obeyed.
The tree above him shuddered. Green buds exploded from black branches, unfurled into leaves, burst into flowers, then withered to brown, all in the space of ten heartbeats. The puddle beneath him melted, rippled, and evaporated. The sky churned—day, night, day, night—a strobe of dying suns and cold stars. Etime V3.0 Download
Then he stopped.
He was old now. His hands were wrinkled maps, his hair white as bone. But his eyes were clear. He had just lived seventy years in the span of a single second of factory time. He had watched the tree live and die. He had watched the smog finally settle as the last factories coughed and fell silent. It obeyed