Rather than shrink, as expected, the cracks in the world continue to spread.

It's slow at first, like a boulder just starting its long fall down a mountain.

But it gets faster.

Bina, watching, realizes that as bad as paradox is for the person who causes it, the people who are left behind are almost certainly going to get it worse.

It's slow at first, like a boulder just starting its long fall down a mountain.

But it gets faster.

Bina, watching, realizes that as bad as paradox is for the person who causes it, the people who are left behind are almost certainly going to get it worse.