“Do you know why time is so confusing to some of us, Joel?” Nalizar asked. Joel said nothing. “Because man created it. He sectioned it off. There is nothing inherently important about a second or a minute. They’re fictional divisions, enacted by mankind, fabricated.” He eyed Joel. “Yet in a human’s hands, these things have life. Minutes, seconds, hours. The arbitrary becomes a law. For an outsider, these laws can be unsettling. Confusing. Frightening.” He flipped the coin back to Joel. “Others of us,” he said, “take more concern to understand—for a person rarely fears that which he
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