Shade watched from the side as the young lovers "conversed in writing," but even after they finished talking and Little Kaming bade farewell to his lover and left the room, the so-called "passage" did not appear.
This time, Shade did not follow him. After he left, Shade took out the locked book again and pressed the Time Key against the door depicted on its cover.
The key slipped directly into the book:
"This works too. The book itself is made of wood, so besides the most primitive form of a 'tree hollow,' can wooden products also serve as manifestations of a Time Tree Hole?"
He then thought of what the cabinet, the wooden door, and the book cover had in common:
"There also needs to be the concept of a 'door.' May the World Tree protect me through Infinite Time."
With a gentle twist, the lock turned with a click—
Outlander, you have opened a "Distorted Tree Hole." A prompt from the Father of Infinite Tree: Using a normal Time Key to open this door will connect to the following point in time: Present World, Sixth Epoch, 1802. Note: Any life other than yourself that uses this passage will be afflicted by a Time Curse. Note: You may enter the past through this abnormal passage for twenty minutes. When the time is up, you must return through this passage. Note: After using the key to open this door twice, the passage will collapse completely.
The cabinet connected three different years—1698, 1763, and 1814. The wooden door connected to 1821, while this book connected only to 1802.
"This truly is love across time."
For a moment, Shade did not know what to say.
But before he could decide whether to take the book away, the witches had already discovered