Saving Time

One of characters, a wizard who wants to remain anonymous for now, created spells to clip small chunks of time and save them in a time vault.  The chunks can be removed from the time vault when needed and used to add time to an event under way.  After I threatened him with a hideous death in my next story, he revealed the spells to me.

Clipping time is quite easy to do, especially during the boring moments in life: waiting at a red light, watching never-ending TV commercials, on a treadmill...