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Dune gave a saintly sigh and ather around the coffee table "Okay There’s a USB, so I knew it h six cords before I figured out the right sequence to use to keep it frorinned at Michael "You and Em aren’t the only ones who are electric around here"

"It’s not electricity," Eued "Or chemistry It’s physics"

"Anyway," Dune continued, "I knew there was est external drive I could buy in town, 3TB, and I still couldn’t get it to transfer or open So I ordered this handy-dandy one from the Internet" He tapped the top of a shiny black box "I still only got enough to break the encryption"

"The what?" Em had to stand on her tiptoes to try to see over everyone else’s shoulders Finally, she just punched Nate in the arm until he moved

"The encryption It makes data unreadable to anyone who doesn’t have a key or password Skrolls are super futuristic and still in development for the masses" He touched a button, and the screen lit up He flipped it around so we could see it and pulled a stylus out of his pocket "Everyone sit so you can all see, and so E"

Once we did, he pushed a release button on the side of the Skroll and a flat, flexible screen slid out It looked like it was es popped up all over it, and then, with the touch of another button, the backlit screen becaes, documents, diaries, maps--from the most simplistic to the most advanced--spun around in the air with one touch

"Sweet," Nate said under his breath

"How does it work exactly?" Em asked

"I shall de first" Dune put down the stylus "I’ve known about the Infinity-glass for a long time It’s sort of an obsession So is Chronos"

"What?" Dune was firic and facts His ability to control the tides meant he couldn’t use it without serious consequences Like tsuna hourglass didn’t see "How did you find out about theer And then, as I got older, I did lots of research The Infinityglass is part of the reason I’rinned "What I’ve learned recently is that Chronos clailass isn’t the only group focusing on time-related abilities Chronos has been connected to every iical discovery in the last one hundred years, at least Have you ever heard of horology?"

Nate giggled

"I’ else today Swear" Nate locked his lips with an iinary key and then threw it over his shoulder

Dune shook his head and y is the science of ti devices, frolass to the pendululass the ultiy Some think it’s mythical, others believe it’s real And that’s what’s on the Skroll Inforlass"

"What is it?" Elass was initially created for a pure purpose," Dune said "It was supposed to channel time-related abilities from person to person, but instead, whoever had possession of the Infinityglass could use it to steal the time-related ability of anyone he or she touched"

Helpless Hopeless Elass is the other alternative" Emerson’s defeat had worked its way into her voice "Jack trying to travel on his own didn’t work out, I didn’t work out, so now he’s looking for the Infinityglass It puts all of us in danger"

"Not if he can’t find it," Dune said, an unmistakable look of deterlass dropped off around the early 1900s It resurfaced briefly in the 1940s, and then again in the 1980s Both tiypt, but then it was lost again"