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Time didn't stop as an act of mercy.
It stopped as a fault.
For a fraction of a second, too small to measure, too large to ignore, the machinery of causality disengaged. Forces, matter and intent remained, but sequence did not.
Effects waited without causes. Causes searched for futures that no longer existed. The universe, built on continuity, lost its ordering principle and improvised.
That improvisation was the Apocalypse.
What followed was not destruction in the conventional sense, but drift. Consequences arrived late or early or not at all. Actions echoed forward without origins, while origins collapsed inward, never resolving.
History ceased to be a line and became a knot. Every attempt to repair the damage merely added tension to the tangle.
Yet that same fracture created an opening.
When time stands still, responsibility is briefly suspended. Not erased. In that interval, nothing is compelled to follow. No reaction is owed. No outcome is enforced. The chain of cause and effect, normally absolute, ceases to exist.
To break the cycle, one must act there.
Not with force. Force still belongs to causality. Instead, with refusal. Refuse the next link. Refuse the inherited outcome. Introduce a decision that does not propagate, a choice that terminates rather than continues.
The cycle persists only because something always follows.
End that assumption, once, precisely at the fault, and the universe is forced to relearn sequence without the error.
Time resumes, not as it was, but as it must be: continuous, constrained, and finally unburdened by the moment it nearly unraveled itself.
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