“A Time Maze?”

Meryl the Mole adjusted their glasses - they were clearly enjoying that topic.

“a time maze, max, is an artifact that can assume diverse forms, be it a room, a house or, in this case, an entire sewerage. it can dwell as much in the realm of abstracta as it can be tangible, physical, although there are barely any registers of existent abstract time mazes. i believe they are mere but a theoretical concept.”

Max blinked slowly.

“You lost me on ‘a time maze, max’…”

And Meryl the Mole proceeded, progressively more agitated as they spoke:

“anyway, a material time maze, like the one in which we are lost right now, can be a product either from craftmanship or nature itself, like a phenomena. the first mentions to time mazes in liminalia history highly suggest it was a natural occurence first, by which humans studied its functionings and transmutated their learnings into the realms of mechanica. the construction of time mazes has become an art in itself, and dozens of books were written on the topic. from construction, to design, to explorations on the field, the researches were endless, and the possibilities were infinite!”

Max was trying really hard to follow all the lore dump Meryl was throwing at him, but not even the maze was so confusing.

“And who made this one?”

“it wouldn’t be too far of a stretch to simply assume it is an anomaly, as most natural time mazes tend to appear in form. those are short-spanned, with an perdurance time varying from hours to days, or even decades, depending on the magnitude of the time oddity.

natural time mazes are messy and hold barely any discernible patterns of construction at all, save for the mathematical laws that rule all the things in this world. the strongest is the time oddity, the stronger are the maze’s deviations.

for a time maze is, above all, a mechanism of illusion. the turns and pathways are mere but abstractions - fragments of past, present and future merging and converging into one another. the result is an intricate web of seemingly identical passageways, except for the fact they aren’t, but rather diverging across time and space in all at once while still occupying the same, singular, physical space - a labyrinth.”

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