Stacy: We need a working definition. Not poetry. Something hunters can use.
Caelwyn: Then start here: time isn’t neutral.
Stacy: Everything isn’t neutral in this world. That’s not helpful.
Caelwyn: Time doesn’t attack. It presses.
Stacy: Presses on what?
Caelwyn: On unresolved things.
Stacy: So time isn’t a force. It’s a condition.
Caelwyn: A pressure system.
Stacy: Meaning the longer something exists, the worse it gets.
Caelwyn: Unless it’s resolved.
Stacy: That fits vampires.
Caelwyn: Stagnation.
Stacy: Wraiths too.
Caelwyn: Memory without release.
Stacy: Hunters?
Caelwyn: We step in when the pressure spikes.
Stacy: January matters because it’s a threshold.
Caelwyn: Not a beginning.
Stacy: A stress test.
Caelwyn: When unfinished things surface.
Stacy: So time doesn’t heal.
Caelwyn: No.
Stacy: It accumulates.
Caelwyn: And eventually turns accumulation into danger.
Stacy: Final definition, then.
Caelwyn: Time in the World of Darkness isn’t change.
Stacy: It’s retention.
Caelwyn: The mechanism that preserves unresolved states.
Stacy: And makes them lethal over time.
Stacy: That’s usable.
Caelwyn: It has to be.
Stacy: Because hunters don’t fight time.
Caelwyn: We manage the weight it creates.
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