"When dealing with non-corporeal beings and non-species forms of life in the universe, it was crucial to fully understand how their sense of time and space differed from ours. This was especially true for humans and other short-lived races, whose experience of time differed from that of most long-lived species. We had to recognize this difference instead of blindly imposing our own sense of time upon them."
"There were many ways to make use of differences in temporal and spatial perception. For example, ten years was an extremely long stretch of time for humans. It accounted for one-seventh or one-eighth of our lives, and for most humans, waiting ten long years was unacceptable."
"But if the target was an Asgardian god or another Cosmic Demon, ten years was too short to even mention. If we told a human, 'Wait ten years for me,' we would practically be telling them that we wanted to spend our lives together. But if you said that to a Demon God, they might only understand it as you wanting to take a short nap before discussing the matter with them."
"This brought up another exploitable point. When we understood their sense of time but they did not understand ours, this information gap could be used to set traps for them in contracts..."
At the podium of Dream School's tiered lecture hall, Schiller lectured while pacing back and forth across the front of the classroom. The seats before him were packed with students, though they were not all young people attending Dream School, nor were they all human.
The fan-shaped section on the left was mostly occupied by veteran Sanctum Sanctorum staff. They had come for advanced courses, chiefly Cosmic Psychology and Interstellar Sociology. A small section beside them held S.H.I.E.L.D. agents bonded with Symbiotes, who