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No More Time

“So what is the pod supposed to do?” The old man in the corduroy vest taps a finger against his chin. “Let's see – Sorry, the technical explanation goes over most people's heads. Have you heard of cryonics?” The large box in the center of his cozy lab is covered in strips of interwoven black metal, creating a hard and bumpy shell with a scaly crisscross pattern. A single porthole on the front looks in, though the material is smoky gray and opaque from a distance. Perhaps a small submarine, or a freezer built large enough to hold a person standing within. “Is that like cryogenics? Freezing people?” “Indeed!” He walks closer to the box, gesturing for you to follow. “Inside the pod, we can fix space so that, for all intents and purposes, time is prevented from passing. We call it a stasis field.” Pulling at the side, he opens the front door on whining hinges to reveal the interior. “You might say it is exactly like being frozen, but much easier to un-thaw because there are no