His glance fell on the instrument panel chronometer. It was the only thing that moved on this alien world because it indicated thousandths of a second.
Even so, a thousandth of a second lasted for one minute and 12 seconds!
Exactly two minutes and one second ago he had landed on Mirsal.
Exactly one second ago he had climbed through the LFG's ring of light.
He sighed.
It was a kind of resignation as he let his head sink down in his arms on the control panel and decided to sleep for a quarter second.
No one, not even he, could guess how long this quarter second would really last...
PRISONER OF TIME
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